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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lamiat Sabin

HMS Gloucester: Wreckage of warship that carried King James II found off Norfolk coast

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The wreckage of a royal warship that carried the future king of England onboard moments before it sank has been discovered off the Norfolk coast.

The HMS Gloucester ran aground some 28 miles off Great Yarmouth 340 years ago. The incidenthappened after a dispute – about navigating the treacherous Norfolk sandbanks – between James Stuart, then the Duke of York, and the ship’s pilot James Ayres.

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