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[editar]Sir Cloudesly Shovel in the Association with the Eagle, Rumney and the Firebrand, Lost on the Rocks of Scilly, October 22, 1707 | |
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Sir Cloudesly Shovel in the Association with the Eagle, Rumney and the Firebrand, Lost on the Rocks of Scilly, October 22, 1707 |
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English: 'Sir Cloudesly Shovel in the Association with the Eagle, Rumney and the Firebrand, Lost on the Rocks of Scilly, October 22, 1707' Print. In autumn 1707 Sir Cloudesley Shovell, the Admiral of the Fleet (the Navy's senior serving officer at the time) returned from a successful commission in the Mediterranean with a squadron comprising 15 ships of the line, five frigates and a yacht. Several days of poor weather prevented navigational sights being taken and their position was estimated as further south than it was when, during the night of 22 October, his flagship 'Association' ran onto the Gilstone Ledges of the Isles of Scilly and rapidly sank. The 'Eagle', 'Firebrand' and 'Romney' all also struck and sank nearby. Over 1300 men were lost, including Shovell, and only 26 were reported to have survived. In this print - which is the only contemporary illustration of the disaster - the 'Association' (flying the royal standard) is in the left foreground. Part of the ship remained on the rocks for some time and in 1709 there was an official salvage operation to recover the considerable treasure she was carrying as prize of war, and her guns. The site was then forgotten until rediscovered by Royal Navy divers in 1967 after which there was considerable competition to do more salvage. Several French bronze guns - also prizes - were raised with other artefacts, including valuable coin: these were sold under salvage law as it stood at that time but the controversy engendered by this and similar activities in Scilly and elsewhere contributed to the passing of the 1973 Act for the Protection of Historic Wrecks around the United Kingdom. More immediately, in 1714, the disaster encouraged the passing of the Longitude Act under which prizes were offered for reliable means of determining longitude at sea, although the loss of Shovell's ships had almost nothing to do with this and was much more one of the weather preventing the taking of latitude sights, inadequate charts, and probably also the then unknown existence of 'Rennell's Current' - a fairly imperceptible one that tends to set ships further north than navigators may believe. Thirty years later a local woman confessed on her deathbed to have found Shovell washed up, barely alive, and finished him off for the sake of an emerald ring he was wearing - though there are reasons for doubting this story. His body was certainly recovered and buried in Westminster Abbey where there is a monument to him. Though carved by Grinling Gibbons it also proved controversial and today looks very strange, as well expressed by the 18th-century writer Joseph Addison: 'Sir Cloudesley Shovel's monument has very often given me great offence: instead of the plain rough English Admiral which was the distinguishing character of that plain gallant man, he is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau, dressed in a long periwig, and reposing himself upon velvet cushions under a canopy of state. The inscription is answerable to the monument; for instead of celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service of his country, it acquaints us only with the manner of his death, in which it is impossible for him to reap any honour.' One of the French bronze guns (recovered in 1970) was purchased by the Tresco Estate, Scilly, for the figureheaad 'Valhalla' there, which in turn became part of the NMM collection in 1979: see KTP1326. |
Lugar representado | Isles of Scilly |
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hacia 1710 date QS:P571,+1710-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Notas | Box Title: Fighting Ships 1492-1763. |
Fuente/fotógrafo | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/140657 |
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The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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Identifier InfoField | Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: 6104 id number: PAH0710 |
Collection InfoField | Fine art |
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