aBurntShip

                      An interview with Mark Beattie- Edwards  Was pleased to interview Mark Beattie-Edwards of the Nautical Archaeology Society ( NAS) by email as a follow up to my earlier  Save the London appeal  post. From my original piece : The 'London' had taken on board men and provision ready for fighting, then moored near Southend  when its magazine  suddenly exploded on 7th March 1665. Samuel Pepys' Diary entry for the following day describes casualties of "above 300" , which is still the accepted figure, and reported the "ship breaking all in pieces" . The latter claim is not quite accurate, the blast impact caused a major part of the ship  to split away and sink 2 miles from its moorings,  The wreck of  the 'London' was re-discovered in 2005 lying in the mud of the Thames Estuary. The London never got to fight in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.  1) It has been a year since this bl...

                                                    Lyrics from 17th century ballad                                                    When canons are roaring, and bullets are flying,                                                 He that would honor win, must not fear dying ,                                                      Picture of the Battle of the White Mountain 1621, in public domain, courtesy of Wikipedia  Very glad to have come across the Passamezzo   v...