Wreck of 17th-century royal warship found off UK coast

Johan Danckerts’s circa-1682 work, ‘The Wreck of the ‘Gloucester’ off Yarmouth, 6 May 1682.’ About 130 people died in the catastrophe, but the Duke of York survived and later ascended to the English and Irish throne as King James II and the Scottish throne as James VII. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, from the collection of the Royal Museums Greenwich. The Wikimedia Foundation regards the work as being in the public domain in the United States because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1927.
Johan Danckerts’s circa-1682 work, ‘The Wreck of the ‘Gloucester’ off Yarmouth, 6 May 1682.’ About 130 people died in the catastrophe, but the Duke of York survived and later ascended to the English and Irish throne as King James II and the Scottish throne as James VII. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, from the collection of the Royal Museums Greenwich. The Wikimedia Foundation regards the work as being in the public domain in the United States because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1927.
Johan Danckerts’s circa-1682 work, ‘The Wreck of the ‘Gloucester’ off Yarmouth, 6 May 1682.’ At least 130 people died in the catastrophe, but the Duke of York survived and later ascended to the English and Irish throne as King James II and the Scottish throne as James VII. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, from the collection of the Royal Museums Greenwich. The Wikimedia Foundation regards the work as being in the public domain in the United States because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1927.

LONDON (AP) – Explorers and historians are telling the world about the discovery of the wreck of a royal warship that sank in 1682 while carrying a future king of England, Ireland and Scotland.

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