Wreckage of HMS Victory found

Posted on February 04^th 2009

The HMS Victory has been discovered at the bottom of the English Channel after being presumed lost for hundreds of years. The HMS victory is not Lord Nelson’s Victory but her predecessor, which was an a100-gun ship, which was the world’s most powerful warship.

The Victory was only seven years old when during a storm in 1744 she disappeared with out a trace of the ship or its crew.

The wreck has now been found nearly 100km away from the believed historical location for its demise on a reef near the Channel Islands.

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