Stirling
Castle
- Location
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Lat/lon: 51° 16' 25" N 01° 30' 30" E
Description: Goodwin Sands, Kent
- Access restrictions
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Restrictions: An area within 50m radius of position 51° 16.426' N., 01° 30.516' E.. Chart affected: 1828.
This site is a designated Historic Wreck under the Protection of Wrecks Act, 1973
- Notes
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The Stirling Castle, a 70 gun third rate built in 1678 at Deptford, was one of the victims of the Great Storm of 1703 which also claimed the warships Northumberland, Restoration and Mary on the Goodwin Sands with the total loss of 1190 lives. The site was first located by divers from Thanet in late 1979 investigating a fisherman's net fastening, at a time when the wreck was exposed by a sh ift in one of the sand banks of the Goodwin Sands. The sand had shifted to reveal a remarkably well-preserved and intact hull. The wreck was designated in 1980 but since then the supporting matrix of sand continued to shift and the wreck, having little mechanical strength of its own, eventually collapsed.
ADU designation: June 6, 1980; 1980 No. 1; 1980/645. Amendment Order September 30, 1980; 1980/1306.
ADU licences: 1980-4 survey; 1985-6 excavation; 1988-9 survey; 1993-4 survey.
- References
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- Anon., 1979, Wreck of a British man-of-war discovered on the Goodwin Sands. Isle of Thanet Archaeological Unit.
- Larn, R., 1985, Unidentified artefacts 4. IJNA 14.1: 73-8.
- Lyon, D., 1980, The Goodwins wreck. IJNA 9.4: 339-42.
- Information provided by
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The Archaeological Diving Unit
Supplementary information
I have developed a board game based around this area of the uk and specific to historical diving. It could be used as a fund raising tool for further examination of the Stirling Castle and other wrecks. If anyone is interested get in touch
- - Peter Townsend (noningtonkent@noningtonkent.screaming.net), 2 Feb 100
The wreck site has not collasped as mentioned above .Project Man o War 1999 carried out an extensive survey of the site & when compared to 1979 information found only a very small part of the site had detorated. For further information contact bobpeacock@netscapeonline.co.uk. Licencee for the Stirling Castle .
- - Bob Peacock (bobpeacock@netscapeonline.co.uk), 2 Mar 100
It is a loverly place
- - Jessica Wesley (jessicawesley@uk2.net), 21 Nov 2001