{"id":13199,"date":"2012-01-23T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13199"},"modified":"2012-01-22T12:57:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T17:57:18","slug":"raising-the-wreck-of-the-earlier-hms-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/raising-the-wreck-of-the-earlier-hms-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising the wreck of the earlier <em>HMS Victory<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The famous British warship <em>HMS Victory<\/em> preserved in Portsmouth was built to replace an earlier ship <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-16671444#TWEET65964\" target=\"_blank\">lost in a storm in 1744<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The remains of a 300-year-old warship are to be raised from the sea bed, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The wreck of <em>HMS Victory<\/em>, a predecessor of Nelson&#8217;s famous flagship, was found near the Channel Islands in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The British warship, which went down in a storm in 1744 killing more than 1,000 sailors, could contain gold coins worth an estimated \u00a3500m.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Sunday Times<\/em> says the Maritime Heritage Foundation is set to manage the wreck&#8217;s raising.<\/p>\n<p>It also reports that the charity will employ Odyssey Marine Exploration to carry out the recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The American company found the ship four years ago, with the ship&#8217;s identity confirmed by a bronze cannon. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous British warship HMS Victory preserved in Portsmouth was built to replace an earlier ship lost in a storm in 1744: The remains of a 300-year-old warship are to be raised from the sea bed, according to reports. The wreck of HMS Victory, a predecessor of Nelson&#8217;s famous flagship, was found near the Channel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,5],"tags":[288,30,128,365],"class_list":["post-13199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","tag-archaeology","tag-navy","tag-salvage","tag-wreck"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3qT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13201,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199\/revisions\/13201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}