The 1707 Navigation Disaster — Sunk in 3 Minutes (Full Story)

Описание: Sunk in 3 minutes.
In 1707, HMS Association and three Royal Navy warships hit the rocks of the Isles of Scilly—turning a routine voyage into a mass casualty event.

This episode breaks down the navigation failure behind the disaster: dead reckoning, silent drift, unreliable compasses, and charts that couldn’t prevent the fatal mistake—while longitude remained unsolved without a marine chronometer.

We reconstruct the final approach with a forensic timeline and survivor testimony, showing how small measurement errors stacked into catastrophe—and how the aftermath helped ignite the race to solve longitude, leading to John Harrison’s chronometer.

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