Divers have discovered the wreck of a legendary 17th century ship off the coast of England in the North Sea.
According to a report from the University of East Anglia on Friday, it is a British royal warship called the Gloucester, which sank in 1689 on the last second ship. James is also an English king.
After four years of searching, a private diving team led by brothers Julian and Lincoln Barnwell in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk County, reached the wreck in 2007. The discovery in international waters was kept a secret for years to protect the discovery, and it took years until the shipwreck that was It was in such good condition as the remains of Gloucester in 2012 after the bell was found.
Experts described this discovery as an archaeological sensation. University professor Claire Jewett says it’s a time capsule that provides an opportunity to learn a lot about life on a 17th-century ship. In any case, this is the most significant discovery in the eighth Britain. King Henry since 1982 has staged an uprising against his warship, the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545.
In addition to the hull of the ship, which crashed and sank in the sand, divers found their guns, navigational aids, clothes, shoes, utensils, cutlery, unopened wine bottles, mugs still in their forests, and many other things. One of the wine bottles bears the coat of arms of the Legge family, ancestor of the first President of the United States, George Washington – the pioneer of the star-banded American flag.
An exhibition of objects found in Gloucester will take place next spring at the Norwich Castle Museum, which will also contain the ship’s bell, which was a key factor in the ship’s identification.
The battleship sailed into a reef sailing among the sand dunes off the coast of Great Yarmouth and sank within an hour, killing several crew and passengers, with an estimated 130 to 250 casualties. The second successor, who ruled between 1685 and 1688. King James of England and Ireland (commonly known as James VII of Scotland) survived the ordeal.
Excavation of the wreck is not currently planned because it is deeply embedded in the sea floor.
