On this day
4 October 1744 Loss of the HMS Victory (1737)
On October 4, 2021 by trappedinthe18thAlthough she is one of the most famous warships in the history, the HMS Victory, which was built in the 1760s, fought at Trafalgar and nowadays is in the dry dock in Portsmouth had four predecessors under the same name. The fourth one was launched in 1737 and became the flagship of the Channel Fleet