Wreck of 17th-century warship found

The wreck of HMS Gloucester – a Royal Navy warship that sank in 1682 while carrying the future king James Stuart – has been discovered off Britain’s Norfolk coast
                
Wreck
Norwich
Great Yarmouth
UK
London
80km 50 miles
       

May 6, 1682: HMS Gloucester founders on Lemon and Oar sandbank off Yarmouth, drowning up to 250 crew and passengers

HMS Gloucester: Speaker-class frigate 
Length: 35.7m. Beam: 10.6m
Crew: 210-340 officers and ratings 
Guns: 60. Commissioned: 1654

Ship’s bell: Bronze, weight of 64kg and height of 53.3cm

Wine bottle: Bears seal of Legge family, ancestors of George Washington – first U.S. President

Crest: Was forerunner to Stars and Stripes flag 

Painting of Gloucester disaster by Johan Danckerts (circa 1682)
      

Sources: AP, ITV, Naval History 
Pictures: University of East Anglia, Wikimedia Commons 
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