The wreck of a 17th century ship that almost cost the life of the future King James II when it sank has been found off the east coast of England.
HMS Gloucester sank in the North Sea in 1682 and the wreck has now been discovered 28 miles off the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.
The ship had been carrying the Duke of York, James Stuart, who three years later would become the last Roman Catholic King of England.
Professor Claire Jowitt, a maritime history expert at the University of East Anglia, said it could be “the single most significant historic maritime discovery” since King Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, was discovered and raised from the seabed off Portsmouth in 1982. The Mary Rose sank in 1545 with the loss of 500 lives….