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The fleet thinks it knows where it is · Scilly 1707
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The Scilly naval disaster, 1707: four warships and over 1,300 men were lost on the rocks, because at sea nobody could measure longitude, and the charts were wrong too.
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Visuals are AI reconstructions; research & narration by Eli. Sources in the pinned comment.
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The Scilly Naval Disaster of 1707: Lost Because They Couldn’t Find Longitude
In 1707 a British fleet wrecked on the Isles of Scilly because its navigators could not calculate longitude. The disaster helped launch the search for the marine chronometer.
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