Errors in navigation also resulted in shipwrecks . Motivated by a number of maritime disasters attributable to serious errors in reckoning position at sea , particularly spectacular disasters such as the Scilly naval disaster of 1707 which took Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and four ships of his fleet , the British government established the Board of Longitude in 1714
Scilly naval disaster of 1707
Scilly naval disaster of 1707
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