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In the winter
of 1703, England witnessed a storm that was to destroy property
and cause the death of more people than any before or since.
This
storm also created an urban myth and defamation of a town
that was adjacent to where the death of over a thousand sailors
occurred.
In this
book, the author tells the true story of how one of Queen
Anne’s warship's, the Stirling Castle, was lost and
then found – almost intact after nearly thee-hundred
years of being buried in the infamous Goodwin Sands. It also
destroys the libel that Daniel Defoe inflicted on the people
and boatmen in the town of Deal.
This defamation
was hoped to be rectified with a prosecution by the 1705 Corporation
of Deal, however, it never was – and the lies have survived
for over three centuries. The evidence that has been researched
in this book clearly vilifies the dishonour and contempt that
Daniel Defoe maliciously provoked on the township and its
longshoremen.
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