HMS Victory (1737)
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HMS Victory was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions of the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth Dockyard, and launched on 23 February 173
Painting of Victory sinking on 4 October 1744
Model of the Victory, painted in 1744
Victory, by William Lionel Wyllie
Les Casquets
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Les Casquets or Casquets is a group of rocks eight miles northwest of Alderney in the Channel Islands; they are administered by the Bailiwick of Guernsey. The rocks are part of an underwater sandstone
HMS Victory (1737)
…Victory lost sight of her near the Channel Islands. For over 260 years she was believed to have been wrecked during the night on Black Rock just off the Casquets. Frigates were dispatched across the English Channel to search for her where she was last seen wallowing on the horizon on 4 October. Eventually, Captain…
Aerial view of Les Casquets
A.C. Swinburne
Les Casquets with lighthouses in 1868
Les Casquets looking east (towards Alderney)