"The Salvage of HMS Royal George, 1782 – 1844" Topic
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| Tango01 | 15 Jan 2020 9:49 p.m. PST |
"The loss, while at anchor at Spithead, off Portsmouth, of the ship-of-the- line HMS Royal George on August 29th 1782 was a disaster that had an impact on British society comparable to the loss of RMS Titanic one hundred and thirty years later. The catastrophe was described in an earlier article on this site (click here to read it if you missed it then). The sinking was not however the end of the story and the salvage of HMS Royal George, which was to be completed six decades later, was to be an epic in itself and to make innovative use of new diving technology. Lying as she was in only sixty-five feet of water, in the middle of a busy anchorage and the approaches to Britain's largest naval base, this enormous vessel, largely intact, represented a major hazard. The sinking had been witnessed by a surgeon on an East Indiaman, Thomas Spalding, whose brother, Charles Spalding (1738 – 1783) had already experience of using diving bells for salvage operations…"
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