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 Alcmene (1794) to board her before her captain could throw overboard any dispatches she was carrying for Napoleon Bonaparte, then in Egypt. Hope was unsuccessful, but two seamen from "Alcmene"s crew jumped overboard and were able to retrieve the dispatches before they sank. One of "Alcemene"s boats was able to rescue the intrepid seamen. The Royal Navy took the gunboat into service as HMS "Legere". In 1799, "Alcmene" helped Horatio Nelson to evacuate the Neapolitan Royal family from Naples ahead of the advancing French armies. She then returned to the Lisbon station. "Alcmene" captured the privateer on 26 June 1799. "Courageaux" had