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
Aerial view of Les Casquets
A.C. Swinburne
Les Casquets with lighthouses in 1868
Les Casquets looking east (towards Alderney)
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
Les Casquets
…in 1899, with a loss of 105 lives. The largest wreck was the 8000-tonne water tanker Constantia S, lost in 1967. It was believed for centuries that the loss of HMS Victory in 1744 was attributable to wrecking on the Casquets, the lightkeeper of Alderney even being court-martialled for failure to keep the light on at the…
Painting of Victory sinking on 4 October 1744
Model of the Victory, painted in 1744
Victory, by William Lionel Wyllie