Does anyone have input as to whether the Victory and the 1756 Royal George looked identical?
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Does anyone have input as to whether the Victory and the 1756 Royal George looked identical?
Not sure about that Dobbs but you can read here a graphic description of the loss of the Royal George.
http://dawlishchronicles.com/the-los...l-george-1782/
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HMS Victory, which is shown here, was almost identical to HMS Royal George.
This is the only reference I have found so far.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-14691988
Rob.
Thanks Rob. That fellow's website was quite interesting!
What an inglorious end to a glorious ship. I do mean the blowing up to clear the sea bed as well as the tragic sinking and great loss of life.
And a similar tragic end befell HMS Queen Charlotte:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Qu...arlotte_(1790)
These disasters show how precarious life aboard ship could be in those days. Perhaps we should not complain so much about Health and Safety regulations.
I read some where, I don't know where, that Victory was a one of a kind. This was an article about Victory.
Technically, they are not. Victory's sisters are 1801 HMS Boyne and 1810 HMS Union (both down-gunned during construction and down-commissioned as Second Rates on the same hull design--how I would represent them in game would be with First Rate burden and damage-boxes but weaker gunnery, musketry and crew stats, though I should note they were ultimately restored to the First Rates they were meant to be) and the nine Russian Ches'ma class.
If you do a search on "Stretching Sculpts SGN108" you'll find a thread I compiled with elevation views of almost all the British three-deckers that you can compare at-a-glance.