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  • Member since
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  • From: Lacombe, LA.
early HMS Victory Found!!!
Posted by Big Jake on Monday, February 2, 2009 7:54 AM

Early HMS Victory found with gold and cannon intact.  This shoud fill a nice hole is the history of the ship(s)

Well Done Brits!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1133983/HMS-Victory-shipwreck-laden-4-tonnes-gold-English-Channel.html?ITO=1490

Jake

 

 

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Posted by shannonman on Monday, February 2, 2009 8:13 AM

Well done big jake, you beat me to it.

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Posted by enemeink on Monday, February 2, 2009 11:11 AM

Holy Crap!!

So that's the ship that they found. I've been watching Treasure Quest on the Discovery Channel. I missed an episode this last week and didn't realize what ship it was. I'll say it again HOLY CRAP!

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/treasure-quest/treasure-quest.html

 

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Posted by searat12 on Monday, February 2, 2009 11:30 AM

Apparently, this is 'Balchen's Victory' that was lost while carrying gold, the largest warship of her day.  Outstanding!!  Maybe somebody will produce a model of her... Revell?

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Posted by RTimmer on Monday, February 2, 2009 3:44 PM

Thanks, Big Jake.  Here's a link to the story on this side of the pond:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/science/03shipwreck.html?_r=1&hp

Cheers, Rick

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Posted by Big Jake on Monday, February 2, 2009 4:03 PM

This is a link from the Discovery channel that was posted earlier .

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/treasure-quest/timelines/hms-victory.html

 

 

 

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