Talk:HMS Victory (1737)

Breaking the blockade
This article is quite eclectic. For a reader not acquainted with the historical facts it remains opaque. First and foremost, the reference to braking the blockade. She was wrecked with the loss of her entire crew whilst returning to England as the flagship of Admiral Sir John Balchen after breaking the blockade of Sir Charles Hardy, in the Tagus estuary. Why does a British ship have to break the blockade of a British officer? This makes no sense, as there was no civil war on during that age... please clarify or omit this section and state the details of the loss of the ship. --80.145.199.218 23:40, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I see where you've gone wrong here. Hardy was the one who was blockaded, not the one who was doing the blockading.  Also no more details are available.  Her escorts lost sight of her, then she was wrecked with the loss of all her crew.  I'm afraid there is no more story to tell.  Any extra details on the sinking or what led up to it have been lost with her crew, though I'm not sure what it is you wanted to know anyway.  I will clarify this somewhat in the article.  --Benea 01:24, 8 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I think it would be clearer if the article stated who was blockading Sir Hardy, e.g. "after breaking the Portuguese blockade of Sir Charles Hardy, in the Tagus estuary." I don't know if it actually was the Portuguese, which is why I didn't edit the main article. 74.7.59.215 (talk) 18:17, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

News article: The HMS Victory, Famed Shipwreck, Is Found

 * The HMS Victory, Famed Shipwreck, Is Found Ling.Nut (talk&mdash;WP:3IAR) 02:24, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Copied from Talk:HMS Victory Woody (talk) 12:24, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

See also Dobson & Kingsley, HMS Victory, A First-Rate Royal Navy Warship Lost in the English Channel 1744. Preliminary Survey & Identification.  AusJeb (talk) 22:46, 3 February 2009 (UTC)