Treasure Quest - Code Name "Legend"

[Joe-Diver]

Watching the new show Treasure Quest last night on Discovery....the Odyssey is researching a wreck with brass cannon, some 42 pounders...and are calling it code name "Legend"...

Anyone think they've found HMS Victory? The 4th of 6 ships of that name, which was lost in October 1744 during a storm.....

 

[Gilldiver]

Watching the new show Treasure Quest last night on Discovery....the Odyssey is researching a wreck with brass cannon, some 42 pounders...and are calling it code name "Legend"...

Anyone think they've found HMS Victory? The 4th of 6 ships of that name, which was lost in October 1744 during a storm.....

Depending on how you count them, she would be the 5th of 6 ships named Victory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victory_(1737)
How many Royal Navy ships were named Victory?

 

[jmitch3938]

would be cool, but they need to hurry up and disclose some locations so we have some new dive sites ! : ) or at least buy a cannon..lol

 

[Joe-Diver]

I got my count from here:

HMS Victory (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But they're missing the third Victory from your link...the Little Victory....and your link is missing the 8 gun schooner that served in Canada 1764-1768 from my list....

So, maybe there were 7 HMS Victory ships....seems to be a hotly debated topic!

 

[Gilldiver]

Here is something that hit the discovery site last night or this morning.

The "Legend" shipwreck - DSC news : Discovery Channel

 

[Joe-Diver]

Awesome...thanks for that link....I guess they got what they needed from the MOD so they could announce what they found. It is the HMS Victory.

 

[rleslie]

Can't get the video to work, but here is a news story:

ABC News: Sunken Battleship Found After 264 Years