Lloyd's building consists of three main towers and three service towers around a central, rectangular space. Its core is the large Underwriting Room on the ground floor, which houses the Lutine Bell within the Rostrum. Also on the first floor is loss book which for 300 years has had entries of significant losses entered by quill. The Underwriting Room (often simply called "the Room") is overlooked by galleries, forming a high atrium lit naturally through a huge barrel-vaulted glass roof. The first four galleries open onto the atrium space, and are connected by escalators through the middle of the structure. The higher
HMS Captain (1743) HMS Captain (1743) HMS "Captain" was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 14 April 1743. In 1760, "Captain" was reduced to a 64-gun ship. Then in 1777 she was converted to serve as a storeship and renamed "Buffalo". Although a storeship, "Buffalo" shared, with , and , in the proceeds from 's capture of the 12-gun French privateer "Comte de Maurepas", on 3 August 1780. In 1781, with 60 guns back on board, although she only had 18