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Re: The shipwreck of Admiral Shovell
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2007 Aug 30, 10:30 +1000
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From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2007 Aug 30, 10:30 +1000
Gary wrote:
>>Shovel's fleet also hove to "for to take soundings" so what went wrong
>>with the soundings? are they ambiguous in the vicinity of the
>>Scillies?
>>with the soundings? are they ambiguous in the vicinity of the
>>Scillies?
All of the English Channel is fairly shallow, so soundings may not have given a clear indication of position. As recently as about 12,000 (?) years ago the British Isles were part of the continent. At that time, so I've heard, the Thames was a tributory of the Rhine.
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