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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Michael Howie

HMS Gloucester: Royal warship’s wreckage found off coast of Norfolk after sinking in 1682

Undated handout photo issued by Norfolk Historic Shipwrecks of brothers Julian and Lincoln Barnwell measuring a cannon that was found with the wreck

(Picture: PA)

The wreck of a royal warship which sank in 1682 while carrying the future king James Stuart has been discovered off the coast of Norfolk.

The HMS Gloucester ran aground some 28 miles off Great Yarmouth following a dispute between James, then the Duke of York, and the ship’s pilot James Ayres about navigating the treacherous Norfolk sandbanks.

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