Images were taken of the wreck which match the size, shape and location, all pointing strongly to this being the remains of the White Ship after 900 years underwater. Never before has modern digital technology be used to search for the wreck of the White ship, so the site remained relatively undisturbed.
Only one of approximately 300 people aboard, a butcher from Rouen, survived. Those who drowned included William Adelin, the only legitimate son and heir of Henry I of England, his half-siblings Matilda of Perche and Richard of Lincoln, the earl of Chester Richard d'Avranches, and Geoffrey Ridel.
21 Jan 2023. On 25 November, 1120, William Adelin, grandson of William the Conqueror and heir to the thrones of England and Normandy, died – aged just seventeen. Having set sail for England, his vessel – the famous White Ship – struck a rock and sunk, drowning almost everyone on board in the icy November waters.
Exploring the shallow waters off the coast of France earlier this summer, Lord Charles Spencer, ninth Earl Spencer, stumbled upon the remains of a 12th-century longboat known as the White Ship.
Only one man – perhaps the humblest passenger aboard – survived the violent end of the White Ship: he was Berold, a butcher from Rouen who found a place aboard in order to pursue high-ranking debtors as they set off for England. The medieval butcher thus became eyewitness to one of history's most terrible events.
While the sinking of the White Ship was a personal tragedy for those involved, it was also a political disaster which caused a succession crisis and civil war in England, a period known as the Anarchy. The death of William Adelin on the White Ship left King Henry I without a legitimate male heir.
It was on 25 November 1120 that the party of wine-sodden ladies and gents set sail from Normandy to England on board a vessel named the White Ship. Her captain was Thomas FitzStephen, whose claim to fame at the time was that his father had captained William the Conqueror's ship during the Norman invasion of 1066.
More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance has been located, apparently intact and in good condition.
Glenbank shipwreck: Finnish vessel that sank off coast of Western Australia in 1911 found. When the cargo ship Glenbank foundered in a hurricane off the coast of Western Australia in 1911, there was just one survivor.
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The Mary Celeste, a ship whose crew mysteriously disappeared, is spotted at sea. The Dei Gratia, a small British brig under Captain David Morehouse, spots the Mary Celeste, an American vessel, sailing erratically but at full sail near the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
Son of Henry I by Matilda (Edith); appointed Duke of Normandy, 1120; drowned in White Ship shipwreck, 25 November 1120.
Violet's life experiences justify the moniker she had earned, 'Miss Unsinkable'! The three sunken ships that Violet had worked in are RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic.
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On May 23, it will be 10 years since a man named Harrison Okene survived three days at the bottom of the sea in the wreck of a ship. The 29-year-old had been trapped in the freezing cold and pitch-black darkness 100 feet beneath the ocean surface for 60 hours.
Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, lost since 1915, is found off Antarctica An expedition went where few have ever gone to locate the remnants of a ship that became trapped in the ice 106 years ago, dashing the famed explorer's ambitious mission to cross Antarctica.
The Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found at the weekend at the bottom of the Weddell Sea. The ship was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 1915, forcing Shackleton and his men to make an astonishing escape on foot and in small boats.
A research team has discovered the SS Montevideo Maru, decades after sank with about 979 Australian troops and civilians on board. The ship at the centre of the worst maritime disaster in Australia's history has been discovered more than 4,000 metres beneath the sea, 81 years after it sank.
If William Adelin had not drowned in the White Ship disaster, he would in due course have become King. He drowned while trying to rescue his illegitimate half-sister Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche . His wife Matilda of Anjou survived.
Stadholder-King William III (1650-1702) and his wife Mary Stuart (1662-1695), King and Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, who are buried in Westminster Abbey in London.
William died in the White Ship tragedy of 25 November 1120. The Duke and his companions had been crossing the English Channel from Barfleur in the Blanche-Nef, the swiftest and most modern ship in the royal fleet.
The White Ship disaster on 25 November 1120 (called 7 kalends of December by Farrer) claimed the lives of numerous high-ranking people of Norman England.
1135-1154) On the death of Henry I in 1135, his favourite nephew, Stephen of Blois, son of his sister Adela, hurried to London, where he secured election and coronation within the month.
Dreams about a white ship in the sky usually symbolize a journey towards a new beginning. This can signify the start of a new venture or a new phase in life. This can be a sign that you are ready to take a step forward and move onto something new.