a man named george george anson. and the task of getting out of these dockers was proving and surmount to all these ships were really the engineering marvels of their time. they were devised to be both murderous instruments, which and also the homes to sailors would live in close quarters for as long as three years at a time. this model the wager, which was a little bit the ugly duckling of the squadron because it was a warship that was not born for battle, it had been remade. a battleship from a merchant ship to serve in this war. but even so, it was elegant. it had three mass towering, mass wooden yard arms, which are like booms, which the sails would hang a single like the wager could fly as many as 12 sails. and the larger warships could fly as many as 18. yet as sophisticated as these ships were, they were also very vulnerable to the elements because they were of perishable materials, which was mostly wood. a single warship. but this is one of those astonishing facts. you come across when you're doing a research