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Balchen's Victory

Loss of the Victory

4th October 1744

HMS Victory, the largest, finest ship-of-the-line in the Royal Navy at the time, commanded by Admiral Sir John Balchen, was lost, along with more than 1,000 crew, in an October storm in the English Channel in 1744.

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