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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Rod Minchin

Tragic shipwreck off Dorset linked to Wordsworth family granted protection status

The wreck of a ship which sank more than 200 years ago in one of the UK’s worst maritime disasters has been granted protection by the Government.

The Earl of Abergavenny merchant sailing ship sank off the coast of Weymouth in Dorset in 1805 with the loss of over 200 people.

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