— The fleet thinks it knows where it is · Scilly 1707
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longitude
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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.