HMS Royal James was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Anthony Deane and built by his successor as Master Shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard, Daniel Furzer, and launched in 1675.^[1] She was renamed HMS Victory on 7 March 1691 after the old second rate Victory of 1666 was condemned by survey and taken to pieces. Recommissioned in January 1691 under Captain Edward Stanley, as the flagship of Admiral Sir John Ashby she participated in the Battle of Barfleur on 19 May 1692 – 24 May 1692.

HMS ‘'Royal James'’, with a Royal Yacht and Other Shipping, by Willem van de Velde
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Royal James
Ordered	1 April 1673
Builder	Daniel Furzer, Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched	27 June 1675
Renamed	HMS Victory, 1691
Fate	Burnt, 1721
Notes	Participated in: Battle of Barfleur
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type	100-gun first-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1421 76⁄94 bm
Length	132 ft (40 m) (keel)
Beam	45 ft (14 m)
Depth of hold	18 ft 4 in (5.59 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	100 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1695 rebuild[2]
Class and type	100-gun first-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1486
Length	163 ft 1 in (49.71 m) (gundeck), 135 ft 11¼ in (41.4 m) (keel)
Beam	45 ft 4 in (13.82 m)
Depth of hold	18 ft 6 in (5.64 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	100 guns of various weights of shot

Victory was rebuilt at Chatham Dockyard in 1694–1695. She was briefly renamed Royal George in 1714, after the Hanoverians came to the throne, but resumed the name Victory in 1715. She was partly destroyed by an accidental fire in February 1721 and was broken up,^[2] though remained on the navy list until she was ostensibly rebuilt as the new HMS Victory.^[3]