Sorry to disappoint you all, but apparently the story about HMS Victory being afloat in 1933 was none other than a hoax! I have to admit that it had me fooled, especially given that the story was apparently based on new evidence discovered by the Head Curator of the Royal Naval Museum. Of course, in hindsight at some point in the past 75 years or so the supposedly new evidence would have come to light. And as my brother has suggested, maybe some people who were around at the time might just have remembered it at some point!
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