on objects of pewter, brass, lead and wood the Captain of the Stirling Castle was John Johnson and the First Officer James Beverly. Since then, deterioration has been monitored.Įvidence for thinking this is the Stirling Castle wreck includes the recurring initials of I.I. In 1998 sand movement revealed the vessel to be still near complete and a two-week project to record the exposed remains was organised during the summer of 1999. The site was designated in 1980 but by 1982, the site was covered in sand and it was thought the hull had collapsed.
The wreck had been exposed by a dramatic shift in the Goodwin Sands, and when originally discovered, the hull and its contents were coherent and in an exceptional state of preservation. The site was found in 1979 by divers from Thanet, whilst investigating a fisherman's net fastenings as part of a survey of the Goodwin Sands.
The Stirling Castle, a 70-gun warship built in 1678 at Deptford, was one of twenty third-rates constructed on the order of Samuel Pepys as part of a programme to regenerate the English navy. This storm accounted for many shipping losses over the space of a few days, including other English warships such as the designated Northumberland and Restoration. Remains of an English Third Rate Ship of the Line, which foundered after grounding on the Goodwin Sands during the 'Great Storm' of November 1703.
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