10 Tragic and Shocking Facts about the White Ship Disaster
"No ship that ever sailed brought England such disaster" was the succinct way one historian summed up the tragic tale of the White Ship. He was writing in
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"No ship that ever sailed brought England such disaster" was the succinct way one historian summed up the tragic tale of the White Ship. He was writing in
One Duke of Normandy, William Aetheling and two Princes of Wales, Arthur Tudor and Henry Frederick Stuart, all heirs apparent of England, died uncrowned to leave the throne to their siblings.
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Historian Charles Spencer is sending divers to the wreck site of the White Ship, which sank 900 years ago with the only heir of King Henry I on board. The ship plummeted to the depths of the English Channel on November 25, 1120, after hitting the notorious submerged Quillebœuf Rock, off the French coast. Carrying Henry's heir William Aethling and many other members of the Anglo-Norman nobility, it had only just left the coastal town of Barfleur, in Normandy, and had been bound for Southampton. Everyone on board - bar one lucky butcher - was killed, leading to a succession crisis and ci...