Two brothers have discovered the 'Gloucester' shipwreck, which carried a former King of England, after 340 years:
. Photo Royal Museums Greenwich Wikimedia CommonsGloucester
The ship, built at Limehouse in 1652, set sail from Portsmouth two years later to carry James Stuart and his entourage to collect his wife from Edinburgh and bring her back to the court of his older brother and predecessor to the throne, King Charles II, where it was hoped she would provide him an heir for the royal line. The ship ran aground 28 miles offshore trying to navigate the Norfolk Sandbanks, and it has remained there ever since, its precise whereabouts unknown.
“It was our fourth dive season looking for Gloucester,” Lincoln Barnwell said. “We were starting to believe that we were not going to find her, we’d dived so much and just found sand. On my descent to the seabed the first thing I spotted were a large cannon laying on white sand, it was awe- inspiring and really beautiful. It instantly felt like a privilege to be there, it was so exciting. We were the only people in the world at that moment in time who knew where the wreck lay.
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