SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL SIGNED DOCUMENT: 1689 letter "By the ...

SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL SIGNED DOCUMENT: 1689 letter "By the Principal Officers & Commissioners of His Maj. Navy" appointing Charles Yates Master Carpenter of HMS Crown and signed by Admiral Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral Richard Haddock, etc. Shovell went on to be an Admiral of the Fleet. On returning from a successful campaign inc. a battle at Toulon, his flag ship HMS Association and three other ships ran aground on the Scillies with the loss of over 2,000 personnel. Shovell's body was found washed up on St Mary's. Several newspaper cuttings about a 1967 expedition to recover bullion, etc., from the wreck of Association included.