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 Galgo (1799) vessels captured from the enemy. This was a misfortune for Captain Milne of , who had just captured the French frigate . Still, the Admiralty must have relented as they did purchase "Vengeance", and subsequently other vessels. Notes Citations References HMS Galgo (1799) HMS "Galgo" was a Spanish corvette, launched in 1795, that the British captured in November 1799. In her brief career she detained, took or destroyed a number of small prizes before she foundered, with the loss of most of her crew, in October 1800. In autumn 1799, a convoy that consisted of vessels from England and Cork,