centurion was under the command and of the commodore who the leader of the expedition a man named george anson. and the task of getting out of these dockers was proving insurmountable all these ships were really the engineering marvels of their time. they were devised to be both murders instruments, cannons and also the homes to sailors would live in close quarters for as long as years at a time. this model of 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 into a battleship from a merchant ship to serve in this war, but even so was elegant. it had three mass towering mass, a wooden yard arms, which are like booms from which the sails would hang a single ship, like the wager could fly as many as 12 sails. and the larger warships fly as many as 18, yet as sophisticated as these ships were, they were also vulnerable to the elements because they were made of perishable material, which was mostly wood, a single warship, but was one of those astonishing facts come across when you're doing a research, a sin