 Frigates were dispatched across the English Channel to search for the missing battleship, which was last seen on the horizon on 4 October.Captain Thomas Grenville of the frigate HMS "Falkland" landed at Guernsey in the Channel Islands to reprovision and there heard from locals that wreckage and part of a topmast had washed up on the island's shores.Further investigation proved that the wreckage had indeed come from the "Victory", which was believed to have run into the Casquets, a group of rocks nearby.