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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | Two huge capstones with Porth Hellick in the background. Here, the body of Sir Cloudsley Shovell, Admiral of the Fleet was washed ashore in1707 after HMS Association and several other naval vessels were wrecked on the Gilstone Ledges |
| Posted Comments: Showell Osborn
(2004-09-23) | I'm told Sir Cloudsley Shovell is an ancestor of mine. Showell was my grandmother's maiden name. An amazing life, tragic death. | Thorgrim
(2004-09-23) | The story goes that the fleet was miles off course and a Scillonian sailor on one of the ships said so. He was ignored - some say flogged for insubordination - and so the whole fleet just sailed onto the various rocks and ledges surrrounding the islands. |
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