[RightOnline]

http://www.hms-victory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=79&Itemid=112

Again, sorta depends on who and what you read.....and who or what you believe.

[Winniesboy]

I had the good fortune to grow up in Portsmouth, and the masts of Nelson's Victory were visible most days of my life. At that time the duties of the great ship's tour guide were performed by a roster of Royal Marine cadets. I felt rather sorry for the poor lads, who would not, perhaps, have anticipated this when they joined the Service. They would fire off their rote-learned patter (mostly of facts and figures such as those you've been debating) with a red face and a parade-ground roar, for all the world as if they'd been reporting to their drill sergeant. I've not been back for years, but I imagine things are done rather differently these days.

[LifePath]

This is a great web site, but the HMS Victory referred to in this post is not the same ship. The website you included is for the HMS Victory that was Nelson’s flagship at Trafalgar in 1805. I believe it is in dry dock at Portsmouth today. The HMS Victory that will be recovered from the sea bed is its predecessor, which sank in 1744 with all hands lost. Contemporary accounts (one of which is posted above) put its crew at around 1100, which is larger than the crew of the 1805 HMS Victory.