HMS Association

HMS Association

HMS "Association" was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1697.Ships of the Old Navy, "Association".] She served as the flagship of Cloudesley Shovell in the Mediterranean during the War of the Spanish Succession, in engagements including the capture of Gibraltar on 21 July 1704.

In 1707, she was wrecked off the Isles of Scilly in what was, and remains, one of the worst maritime disasters in British history.

inking

In October 1707, "Association", commanded by Captain Edmund Loades, was returning from the Mediterranean with Shovell on board. The 21 ships in the squadron entered the mouth of the English Channel on the night of 22 October 1707 (Old style). The "Association" struck the Outer Gilstone Rock off the Isles of Scilly, and was wrecked with the loss of her entire crew of about 800 men, along with three other ships (including HMS "Eagle" and HMS "Romney"). As a result of navigational errors, the ships were not where they were reckoned to be. It was largely as a result of this disaster that the Board of the Admiralty instituted a competition for a more precise method to determine longitude.

HMS "Association" had previously survived the Great Storm of 1703. She was at anchor in the Thames Estuary and after cutting rigging to avoid foundering on the 'Galloper' sandbar, was blown to Gothenburg in Sweden before way could be made back to England.

References in fiction

* Robert Goddard - "Name to a face" (2007) ISBN 978-0-593-05367-6 : The recovery of a ring Admiral Cloudesley Shovell was wearing when the "Association" sunk is central to the plot.

Further reading

* Simon Harris - "Sir Cloudesley Shovell: Stuart Admiral" (2001) ISBN 1-86227-099-6

Notes

References


* David Hepper - "British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859" (1994)
*Lavery, Brian (2003) "The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850." Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
*Michael Phillips. [http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=5049 "Association" (90) (1697)] . Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 1 February 2008.

External links

* [http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_007700_hmsassociati.htm HMS Association from "Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia"]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3682/clowdisleybiblio.html "Sir Clowdisley Shovell (1650-1707): A Bibliography" - by Leigh Kimmel]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3682/csbionavchron.html "A Biographical Memoir of Sir Cloudesly Shovel" from "The Naval Chronicle" March 1815]


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