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Thread #92425   Message #1769578
Posted By: beardedbruce
26-Jun-06 - 05:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: the last dreadnought in existence
Subject: RE: BS: the last dreadnought in existence
'HMS Victory was ordered in 1758, the same year in which Horatio Nelson was born at Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk. The keel was laid at Chatham Dockyard in 1759 with Victory being completed six years later."

Sorry, Barry. I had to admit that Victory is a little older than Constitution.