HMS VICTORY -THE BIGGEST BATTLE

HMS Victory THE BIGGEST BATTLE
In December 1758, William Pitt the Elder, in his role as head of the British government, placed an order for the building of 12 ships, including a first-rate ship that would become Victory. During the 18th century, Victory was one of ten first-rate ships to be constructed. The outline plans were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756, and the naval architect chosen to design the ship was Sir Thomas Slade who, at the time, was the Surveyor of the Navy. She was designed to carry at least 100 guns. The commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction. The Master Shipwright in charge of construction was Edward Allin, son of Sir Joseph Allin, former Surveyor of the Navy. The keel was laid on 23 July 1759 in the Old Single Dock (since renamed No. 2 Dock and now Victory Dock), and a name, Victory, was chosen in October 1760. In 1759, the Seven Years' War was going well for Britain; land victories had been won at Quebec and Minden and naval battles had been won at Lagos and Quiberon Bay. It was the Annus Mirabilis, or Wonderful Year, and the ship's name may have been chosen to commemorate the victories or it may have been chosen simply because out of the seven names shortlisted, Victory was the only one not in use. There were some doubts whether this was a suitable name since the previous Victory had been lost with all hands in 1744.

[daniellehirschausen]

Those old sailing ships where beautifully made !

[gordonwhitlock]

Terrible commentary, this needs voicing by a human, a large part repeats, the pauses are in wrong parts of sentences making it almost impossible to understand.

[siobhanlewis]

An interesting story ruined by an unearthly, uncomprehending pseudovoiced robot.

[wlsnpndrvs]

At one thousand one hundred hours. Bad computer