Sir Cloudesly Shovell


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Posted by JimHadfield on August 02, 2004 at 20:30:21 from 195.92.194.14 user JimHadfield.

Dava Sobell, in her excellent book “Longitude”, describes how, only 24 hours before the disastrous wrecking, this gentleman hanged a seaman for mutiny. His crime was to have warned the admiral of the imminent danger of running into the Scillies, having kept his own reckoning of the fleet’s position. Navigation by non-commissioned men being expressly forbidden in the Royal Navy. Poetic justice for Sir Cloudesly. Pity so many others had to perish too.


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