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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cloudesley Shovell (c. November 1650 – 22 or 23 October 1707) was an English naval officer. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle of Solebay and then at the Battle of Texel during the Third Anglo-Dutch War .
12 de dic. de 2019 · Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell’s flagship, HMS Association, had struck the Outer Gilstone rocks, off St Mary’s Island. Here lived a Poldarkian sort of people who relied on shipwrecks for wood and plunder. Ferocious winds had turned the Western Approaches current northwards.
Over a century before Nelson, Norfolk boasted a trio of such heroes; the colourful Sir Christopher Myngs, Sir John Narborough and their Cockthorpe born protégé, Sir Cloudesley Shovell, a man whose death still remains shrouded in mystery today.
In October of 1707, leading a British fleet of 21 ships home from duty in the Mediterranean Sea, a high-ranking and experienced admiral—Sir Cloudesley Shovell—steered his ship directly onto the rocks off the Isles of Scilly, 28 miles west of England in the Atlantic Ocean.
Sir Cloudesley Shovell Crayford's Admiral. Born in the village of Cockthorpe in the County of Norfolk in 1650, Cloudesley Shovell was to rise from a humble birth to become one of the leading and finest Admirals of the age.
22 de oct. de 2014 · By 1707, Sir Cloudesley Shovell had a long and illustrious service career in the Royal Navy. He was Admiral of the Fleet and in command of operations in the Mediterranean, so had made the autumn journey back to England a number of times.
Sir Cloudesley Shovell was born at Cockthorpe in Norfolk in 1650. He joined the navy at the age of 13 serving under Vice Admiral Christopher Myngs and later secured patronage of the Admiral Sir John Narborough, who died of fever in 1688 leaving behind wife Elizabeth, two sons, and a daughter.
