Posted on 02/01/2009 4:24:28 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick
Wreck of HMS Victory 'recovered from Channel' The shipwrecked predecessor to Lord Nelson's HMS Victory, which is thought to contain millions of pounds' worth of gold, is thought to have been found at the bottom of the English Channel. The ship, the fourth of six HMS Victories, sunk with its 1,150 sailors in October 1744 around The Casquets, a group of rocks off the Channel Islands. Among other valuable artefacts, it is thought to contain 100,000 gold coins.
After months of secrecy, Odyssey Marine Exploration, a US company, is expected to confirm on Monday that the ship, codenamed "Legend", that it found in the area in May last year is in fact the Victory.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
But soon they became cabin men. :o)
Semen First Class, no doubt.
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Past
sank
Past Participle
was sunk
Who taught these people their English, specifically verb forms?? the word they are looking for is, SANK. The ship SANK. They can say "was sunk" but the correct "past" form is SANK. argh.... /rant
Just saw this on a discovery program Friday evening. They were using a code name for the Victory so that it would not reveal anything to other hunters. I suspected that it was Victory but the show did not take the exploration through to the final identification.
Wow! Man/gun ratio gun going up fast. Let me attempt to “buy now”. I bid 50 men/gun!
Wow! Man/gun ratio going up fast. Let me attempt to buy now. I bid 50 men/gun!
The Method and Procedures of Nelson's Navy
The Gun Crew
The large cannon of a ship of the line needed a crew of up to eight men to load and fire it and another six to eight men to man the recoil rigging and run out the gun when loaded. The gun crew included:Most of the "gun gew" estimates overlook the muscle guys need to run the guns out for firing as they may not have been assigned to a specific gun, and were also the damage control men.
- Gun captain
- Second gun captain
- Handspikeman
- Loader
- Sponger
- Assistant loader
- Assistant sponger
- Powderman
Smaller guns you may be able to operate without Handspikeman, Assistant loaders and Assistant spongers.
The site I originally checked gave a total of 8 for a 12 pdr (c.40 on the upper decks), 12 for a 24 pdr (c.30 on the middle deck) and 14 for a 32pdr (c.30 on the lower deck)
In the mid-18th century a First Rate would be carrying 42pdrs on the lower deck - replaced by 32pdrs in the early 19th mainly because of the extra crew needed for the heavier gun)
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