One of the last commissions that he refers to in his journal is the embalming of the body in preparation for his lying in state in London , of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell who drowned off the Scilly Isles in one of the worst ever peacetime disasters of the Royal Navy . For this he was paid £ 50
worst ever peacetime disasters
Scilly naval disaster of 1707
James Yonge (surgeon)