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Salvage Team Finds Wreck Of Renowned British Warship HMS Victory After 264 Years

2 February 2009
Florida-based deep-sea explorers have reportedly found remains from the wreck of the most famous ship in British naval history that sank in the English Channel 264 years ago. Odyssey Marine Exploration, a company that found millions worth sunken treasure in 2007, is expected to announced Monday that it has located the HMS Victory, a warship known as the finest ship in the world. About two years ago, the company said it had salvaged 17 tones of gold and silver coins, worth $500 million, from a wreckage of a sunken vessel in the North Atlantic. The mightiest Royal Navy warship of its time, which was considered to be unsinkable, went down in 1744 off the Channel Islands and since then its exact location has remained a mystery. continue reading The press release can be found here: http://shipwreck.net/pr176.php

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