HMS Victory Found...
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rmptr
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I'll post a small clip also...
I find it disconcerting that the sovereign power retains rights because it was a military vessel.
And I'll admit I haven't given the pros and cons much thought, yet without a great effort by the salvors,
that sovereignty would not even know the wreckage existed.
One of the articles says Spain was involved in claims for the last one Odyssey found.
How they could claim any rights is far beyond me.
Anyone who opens a history book can easily see how their ships were actively engaged in plunder of the
New World. Just about every bit of cargo was stolen from indigenous people and soaked in blood.
I'm sure there's an exception, somewhere.
Here's another clip...
Famous British Shipwreck HMS Victory Discovered by Salvagers
By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, February 2, 2009; 4:01 PM
LONDON, Feb. 2 -- U.S. salvagers announced Monday that they have located the wreckage of HMS Victory, one of the most important ships in British naval history, which sank in 1744 carrying four tons of gold coins.
"Finding this shipwreck has solved one of the greatest shipwreck mysteries in history," said Greg Stemm, chief executive of Odyssey Marine Exploration, the Florida-based firm that announced the discovery at a London news conference.
Generations of researchers have puzzled over the loss of the Victory, a predecessor of the HMS Victory that was the flagship of Adm. Horatio Nelson, hero of the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar.
The ship, the most modern in the British fleet at the time, was lost with a crew of more than 1,000, more than 100 brass cannons and 100,000 gold coins it was transporting from Portugal.
Most historians have said the wreckage had to lie close to the Channel Islands, south of England and near the French coast, where the ship's captain, Adm. John Balchin, was believed to have fatally steered it onto rocky shoals.
But Odyssey's crews located the wreckage last May at least 60 miles away, in an area that company officials said had been badly damaged over the years by natural erosion and fishing by trawlers dragging heavy nets across the sea bottom.
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I find it disconcerting that the sovereign power retains rights because it was a military vessel.
And I'll admit I haven't given the pros and cons much thought, yet without a great effort by the salvors,
that sovereignty would not even know the wreckage existed.
One of the articles says Spain was involved in claims for the last one Odyssey found.
How they could claim any rights is far beyond me.
Anyone who opens a history book can easily see how their ships were actively engaged in plunder of the
New World. Just about every bit of cargo was stolen from indigenous people and soaked in blood.
I'm sure there's an exception, somewhere.
Here's another clip...
Famous British Shipwreck HMS Victory Discovered by Salvagers
By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, February 2, 2009; 4:01 PM
LONDON, Feb. 2 -- U.S. salvagers announced Monday that they have located the wreckage of HMS Victory, one of the most important ships in British naval history, which sank in 1744 carrying four tons of gold coins.
"Finding this shipwreck has solved one of the greatest shipwreck mysteries in history," said Greg Stemm, chief executive of Odyssey Marine Exploration, the Florida-based firm that announced the discovery at a London news conference.
Generations of researchers have puzzled over the loss of the Victory, a predecessor of the HMS Victory that was the flagship of Adm. Horatio Nelson, hero of the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar.
The ship, the most modern in the British fleet at the time, was lost with a crew of more than 1,000, more than 100 brass cannons and 100,000 gold coins it was transporting from Portugal.
Most historians have said the wreckage had to lie close to the Channel Islands, south of England and near the French coast, where the ship's captain, Adm. John Balchin, was believed to have fatally steered it onto rocky shoals.
But Odyssey's crews located the wreckage last May at least 60 miles away, in an area that company officials said had been badly damaged over the years by natural erosion and fishing by trawlers dragging heavy nets across the sea bottom.
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MalteseFalcon
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Every Thursday night now, they have a TV show called Treasure Quest, where a camera crew is ON the Odyssey as they do there thing.
Strangely enough, just last Thursday they showed the episode where they first found the Victory, but they would not say the name of it on camera, so I was left mystified. Of course, now, only a few days later, I know what ship it was they had found!
Pretty neat show!
Strangely enough, just last Thursday they showed the episode where they first found the Victory, but they would not say the name of it on camera, so I was left mystified. Of course, now, only a few days later, I know what ship it was they had found!
Pretty neat show!
silvercop
Silver Member
enjoyed last weeks show and yea i noticed that too....tune in this week....
