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'Victory, Portsmouth' dcb105 |
This picture is a signed limited
edition giclee print of 100. |
On 13th December 1758, the Board
of Admiralty in London placed an order for the construction of 12 new
line of battle warships, amongst them a 100 gun 'first rate'. The following
year it was decided that this ship should be called Victory, although
there had been considerable discussion over the name - the previous holders
of the name having been largely unsuccessful. It is interesting to note
that a certain Horatio Nelson was born in that same year, 1758, at Burnham
Thorpe in Norfolk. |
David C Bell gallery |
