The government has granted the wreck of a ship which sank more than 200 years ago special protection, reports AOL
Earl of Abergavenny- The Earl of Abergavenny sank off the coast of Weymouth, Dorset, with the loss of some 250 lives, in what is considered one of the UK’s worst maritime disasters.
- It was carrying more than 60 chests of silver bullion that have never been found.
- John Wordsworth, the brother of renowned Romantic poet William Wordsworth, was the ship’s captain.
- The 1,300-tonne ship set...