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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 .
- 1664–1707
Great Britain dispatched a fleet to provide naval support, led by the Commander-in-Chief of the British Fleets, Sir Cloudesley Shovell. The ships sailed to the Mediterranean, attacked Toulon and managed to inflict damage on the French fleet caught in the siege.
- 22 October 1707
- Navigation accident
- 1,400–2,000
- 13
A 90-gun, second-rate English warship, HMS Association was the flagship of Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who had worked his way up from lowly cabin boy to become Admiral of the Fleet in 1705.
12 de dic. de 2019 · HIP December 12, 2019 A Fateful Emerald: The Story of Sir Cloudesley Shovell Features 6 Comments. By David Dennis. In All Saints’ Street in the Old Town is said to be the oldest home left standing in Hastings. This was also the home of the mother of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell.
22 de oct. de 2022 · Sir Clowdisley Shovell. Sailor. In the south choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a large marble monument (about 20 feet high) to the famous Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell, by the sculptor Grinling Gibbons. It was erected by order of Queen Anne and the inscription reads:
Sir Cloudesley Shovell, by Michael Dahl, about 1702-5 (NMM BHC3025) Earlier that year, his ships had taken part in a failed attempt to take Toulon, and on 29 September Shovell decided to head home on his flagship, the Association, accompanied by 20 other navy vessels.
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.
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