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English ship Delight (1583)

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s captain Richard Clarke had a dispute with Sir Humphrey Gilbert to provide a safe passage near the island, but eventually captain Clarke followed Sir Gilbert's orders to pass close to the island.
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The wreck was one of many on Gilbert's expedition which ended up with Gilbert himself being drowned in a later wreck (the one of
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The 17 men in the lifeboat spent seven days at sea before they finally reached Newfoundland. They were rescued by a
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sank after running aground on one of Sable Island's sandbars. Captain Clarke quickly led 16 men to a small
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sank to a depth of 10 metres (33 ft) and took 85 men (including
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The wreck lies approximately 10 metres deep near Sable Island.
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Ran aground and sank in sandbar or shoal off Sable Island
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Index

HMS Delight
England
England
Sailing ship
GRT
Humphrey Gilbert
Sable Island
Humphrey Gilbert
HMS Squirrel
Newfoundland
Squirrel
England
Humphrey Gilbert
Newfoundland
Sable Island
lifeboat
Stephanus Parmenius
barque
whaling
"HMS Delight – 1583"
"Sable Island: Shipwrecks at the graveyard of the Atlantic"
Categories
16th-century ships
Ships built in England
Sailing ships of England
Shipwrecks of Canada
History of Nova Scotia
16th century in Canada
Shipwrecks of the Nova Scotia coast
Sable Island

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