Shipwrecks of Sable Island

Divers Get an Eerie First Look Inside the Arctic Shipwreck of the HMS Terror

HMS Raleigh and HMS Ardent — HMS Ardent Association

#DidYouKnow 💭 That in 1707 four Royal Navy warships HMS Association, HMS Eagle, HMS Romney, and HMS Firebrand ran aground off the Isles of Scilly, killing over 1,400 sailors? These ships were returning from Mediterranean duty, but without a reliable way to calculate longitude at sea, the fleet misjudged its position. The flagship, HMS Association, was lost with nearly 800 men, making it the deadliest shipwreck in British naval history. This tragedy spurred the creation of the Longitude Act of 1

HMS St George (1622) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia