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Book Review: ‘Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester: The Shipwreck That Shocked Restoration Britain’

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Book Review: ‘Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester: The Shipwreck That Shocked Restoration Britain’
The Wreck of the `Gloucester' off Yarmouth, 6 May 1682 This painting represents the wrecking of the Gloucester while carrying the Duke of York to Leith by Johan Danckerts. Public Domain
Anita L. Sherman
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According to information from England’s Board of Trade, it is calculated that there have been some 500,000 shipwrecks along Britain’s coastline over the centuries. This number is conservative.

Maritime historian and author Nigel Pickford’s latest narrative “Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester: The Shipwreck that Shocked Restoration Britain” concerns one.

Anita L. Sherman
Anita L. Sherman
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Anita L. Sherman is an award-winning journalist who has more than 20 years of experience as a writer and editor for local papers and regional publications in Virginia. She now works as a freelance writer and is working on her first novel. She is the mother of three grown children and grandmother to four, and she resides in Warrenton, Va. She can be reached at [email protected]
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