Wreck of historic royal ship discovered off the English coast uniofeastanglia
the Gloucester has lain half-buried on the seabed, its exact whereabouts unknown until brothers Julian and Lincoln Barnwell, with their friend James Little, found it after a four-year search.
Prof. Jowitt, a world-leading authority on maritime cultural history, is a co-curator of the exhibition."Because of the circumstances of its sinking, this can be claimed as the single most significant historic maritime discovery since the raising of the Mary Rose in 1982," she said."The discovery promises to fundamentally change understanding of 17th-century social, maritime and political history.
Julian added,"When we decided to search for the Gloucester we had no idea how significant she was in history. We had read that the Duke of York was onboard but that was it. We were confident it was the Gloucester, but there are other wreck sites out there with cannons, so it still needed to be confirmed.
The Gloucester was commissioned in 1652, built at Limehouse in London, and launched in 1654. In 1682 it was selected to carry James Stuart, Duke of York, to Edinburgh to collect his heavily pregnant wife and their households. The aim was to bring them back to King Charles II's court in London in time, it was hoped, for the birth of a legitimate male heir.
Diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who witnessed events from another ship in the fleet, wrote his own account—describing the harrowing experience for victims and survivors, with some picked up"half dead" from the water. Following the discovery, the brothers completed an underwater archaeology course with the Nautical Archaeology Society.
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