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Pickford, Nigel, author.
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Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.
James II, King of England, 1633-1701.
Gloucester (Frigate)
Shipwrecks -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685.
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Samuel Pepys and the strange wrecking of the Gloucester : the shipwreck that shocked Restoration Britain / Nigel Pickford.
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Pickford, Nigel, author.
New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.
Subjects
Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.
James II, King of England, 1633-1701.
Gloucester (Frigate)
Shipwrecks -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685.
ISBN:
1639363203 (hardcover)
9781639363209 (hardcover) :
Description:
x, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Contents:
The Norfolk Coast -- York Buildings -- Leither Harbour -- Modena -- Newmarket -- Yarmouth -- Dorset Gardens -- Portsmouth -- The Portsmouth Road -- Deal -- Putney -- Erith -- The North Foreland -- Lowestoft Lights -- The Leman and Ower -- Holyrood House -- Seething Lane -- Floors Castle -- Barber-Surgeons' Hall -- Portugal Row -- Tynemouth -- On board the 'Charlotte' yacht at Greenwich -- The Marshalsea -- Deptford -- Horsleydown -- Wapping Steps -- The Queen's House -- Gresham College -- Stepney -- Faversham -- Chartwell -- Portsmouth revisited -- Fish Street -- The Leman and Ower revisited.
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In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the throne. To celebrate, the future king set sail in a fleet of eight ships destined for Edinburgh, where he would reunite with his young pregnant wife. Yet disaster struck en route, somewhere off the Norfolk coast. The royal frigate carrying James and his entourage sank, causing some two hundred sailors and courtiers to perish. The diarist Samuel Pepys had been asked to sail with James but refused the invitation, preferring to travel in one of the other ships. Why? What did he know that others did not? Religious and political tensions were rife in the years leading up to the wreck of the Gloucester. James was a Catholic, as was his wife, and there was a large constituency who wished them dead. Plots and conspiracies abounded. The Royal Navy was itself in disarray, badly equipped and poorly organised. Could someone on board be to blame for the sinking, either from malice or incompetence? This compellingly narrated account of the catastrophe draws on a rich cache of historical material including letters, diaries, and ships' logs, revealing for the first time the full drama and tragic consequences of a shipwreck that shook Restoration Britain to its core.
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