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ltwilliammowett: “Back in April 2022, workers came across something rather unusual in the Dungeness Quarry in Kent. There they found the remains of a shipwreck lying 300 metres inland in the sediment of the quarry. The wreck is the wooden hull of...
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Back in April 2022, workers came across something rather unusual in the Dungeness Quarry in Kent. There they found the remains of a shipwreck lying 300 metres inland in the sediment of the quarry. The wreck is the wooden hull of caravel-type, of which about 100 oak planks and beams have survived. According to dendrochronological analysis, the wood came from trees felled between 1558 and 1580, the archaeologists have now announced.

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How the ship got there can only be guessed at; it could have accidentally run aground on the gravelly ground, but it is also conceivable that it was deliberately run aground and abandoned at the end of its service. In order to protect the wreck and to be able to carry out further research, the wreck was buried in the silt again.

Source: kentlive.news
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The Triumph and Ark Royal 1592, by Tony Bryan in: Tudor Warships 2, by Angus Konstam

Here we see, two of the most powerful ships in the Elizabethan Navy Royal. The Triumph was a galleon with 46 guns, built in 1561. Ark Royal was build in 1587 as a race galleon. She had 38 guns, which made her less powerful than the Triumph, but she was very manoeuvrable and fast, which compensated the lack of power. During the Armada campaign she served as the fleet flagship.

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