Cloudesley Shovell
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cloudesley Shovell was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle of Solebay and Battle of Texel during the Third Anglo-Dutch War. As
Portrait by Michael Dahl, c. 1702
c. 1739 engraving of the disaster, with HMS Association at centre-left
Shovell's monument in Westminster Abbey by Grinling Gibbons
1702 portrait of Shovell by Michael Dahl
HMS Association
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Association was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1697. She served with distinction at the capture of Gibraltar, and was lost in 1707 by groun
This French 18-pounder bronze gun, probably a trophy from the siege of Toulon (1707) was recovered from the Association site in 1970. The main decoration shows the arms of France and Navarre surrounded by the collars of the orders of St Michel and the St Esprit, surmounted by a crown. The gun carriage is modern. In the Valhalla Museum in Tresco Abbey Gardens, Isles of Scilly.