Something a little different 2022 -Save the London campaign
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...