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English: Memorial to Sir Cloudesley Shovell On Porth Hellick, St Mary's
On the night of 22 October 1707 (by the then calender), when returning to England from an unsuccessful engagement in support of the battle of Toulon, in the War of The Spanish Succession, Sir Cloudesley Shovell's flagship, HMS Association and three other ships of the fleet were wrecked in the Western Rocks. The Association hit the rock called The Gilstone (in SV8305 ) and was lost with all hands (approximately 800 souls). In all around 1,400 men where drowned that night. Sir Cloudesley himself was washed-up on this beach (around six miles away). The story goes that he was alive but was killed for his jewelled rings by the woman who discovered him. His body was buried briefly on this spot before being exhumed to be interred in Westminster Abbey. As a result of this disaster, caused by inaccurate dead-reckoning, the Admiralty launched a competition to determine an accurate method of determining longitude. In the background is the carn known as "The Loaded Camel" |
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Source | From geograph.org.uk |
Author | David Lally |
Attribution (required by the license) InfoField | David Lally / Memorial to Sir Cloudesley Shovell / |
InfoField | David Lally / Memorial to Sir Cloudesley Shovell |
Camera location | 49° 55′ 03″ N, 6° 17′ 05″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 49.917570; -6.284800 |
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Object location | 49° 55′ 03″ N, 6° 17′ 05″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 49.917570; -6.284800 |
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