Wreck of HMS Gloucester is finally found off the Norfolk coast

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The 'outstanding' ship, which sank on May 6, 1682 after hitting the Norfolk sandbanks in the southern North Sea, was uncovered 28 miles off the coast of Great Yarmouth half-buried on the seabed.

HMS Gloucester was a royal warship that sank 340 years ago while carrying the future monarch James Stuart. Plans are underway to exhibit artefacts on board although fragmented remains of the ship are still underwater.

James Stuart, later James II of England, survived the sinking but up to around 250 sailors and passengers died. He's largely thought to have caused such disastrous loss of life by influencing the Gloucester's fateful course

 

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