The Gloucester's sinking almost caused the death of the Catholic heir to the Protestant throne at a time of great political and religious tension in Britain. Discovery of its wreckage is being hailed as the most important maritime find since the Mary Rose.
Explorers and historians are telling the world about the discovery of the wreckage of a royal warship that sank in 1682 while carrying a future king of England, Ireland and Scotland.One of its passengers, James Stuart, survived to go on to reign as King James II of EnglandThe HMS Gloucester — travelling from southern England to Scotland — ran aground while navigating sandbanks off the town of Great Yarmouth on the eastern English coast.However, James Stuart, the son of King Charles I, survived.
The wreck of the Gloucester was found in 2007 by brothers Julian and Lincoln Barnwell and others after a four-year search.It was firmly identified in 2012 with discovery of the ship's bell. Claire Jowitt — an expert in maritime history at the University of East Anglia — said the wreck was "one of the important 'almost' moments in English history."
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