Why Victory might lead a fictional age-of-sail Royal Navy

How likely would Victory be to lead an age-of-sail Royal Navy faction?

Her fame and survival make her a likely symbol, although historical authority followed the admiral and colored-squadron hierarchy.

Victory would be a likely choice to lead the imagined age-of-sail Royal Navy faction because she survives and is so well known. Historical Britain did not organize its fleet around one permanent national flagship. A ship's authority depended on the senior officer whose flag she carried, so the choice could instead follow the flagship of an admiral such as Jervis. The answer therefore distinguishes the symbolic appeal of a famous survivor from the command relationships of the historical navy.