
“It was our fourth dive season looking for Gloucester,” Lincoln Barnwell recalled. The two men are printers based in Norfolk, but they are also licensed divers and Honorary Fellows in the School of History at the University of East Anglia. In fact, it was the recovery of the Mary Rose, a warship from the navy of King Henry VIII that was sunk in 1545 and only found again in the 1970s, that helped inspire the Barnwell brothers on their quest. ( University of East Anglia ) Searching for a Maritime Ghost Ben Redding and Julian Barnwell with some of the finds discovered at the Gloucester shipwreck. “The discovery promises to fundamentally change understanding of 17th-century social, maritime and political history.” “Because of the circumstances of its sinking, this can be claimed as the single most significant historic maritime discovery since the raising of the Mary Rose in 1982,” she said in a University of East Anglia press release. That’s the judgment of Professor Claire Jowitt, a historian from the University of East Anglia who is leading the current investigation into the causes of the Gloucester shipwreck. This discovery stands out as a monumental achievement and helps highlight a fascinating chapter in the United Kingdom’s long and colorful political history.

Now, finally, the hunt for the remains of the ill-fated Gloucester shipwreck has ended. In the image, The Wreck of the Gloucester off Yarmouth, 6th May 1682, by Johan Danckerts. After the ship went down on May 6, 1682, the actual location of the Gloucester shipwreck remained a mystery, and the centuries-long search for its remains only added to its mystique.ĭivers have discovered the Gloucester shipwreck off the coast of Great Yarmouth.

The sinking of the Gloucester made a mark on history since it almost resulted in the death of the undisputed Catholic heir to the English throne. It is being hailed as the most important find since the Mary Rose Now the Gloucester shipwreck has finally been located off the coast of Norfolk, east England. This maritime accident became quite famous, since the ship just happened to be transporting the future king of England, James Stuart, at the time it was lost. The Gloucester was a 17th century warship that sunk to the bottom of the sea 340 years ago off the coast of Norfolk in the United Kingdom, with over well over 100 passengers dying.
