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Old 22nd Mar 2015, 06:47
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A bit off-topic, but Sir Cloudseley Shovell lost not only his own ship but others were wrecked too: the total death toll was in the region of 2,000 and was a major naval disaster. The problem was that the navigators of the day couldn't calculate longitude and so piled the fleet onto rocks near the Scillies.
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