Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the battery of bronze cannon cast for the Royal Navy by the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich which were carried aboard HMS Victory 1744 were included in the gifting of the vessel to the Maritime Heritage Foundation.

In January 2012, the then Secretary of State for Defence transferred HMS VICTORY 1744 and all that is connected with the ship, situated in the immediate vicinity of where she is lying, to the Maritime Heritage Foundation upon trust. This would include the brass cannon dispersed around the wreck site.