During the War of the Spanish Succession Shovell commanded a squadron which served under Admiral George Rooke at the capture of Gibraltar and the Battle of Málaga . Working in conjunction with a landing force under the Earl of Peterborough his forces undertook the siege and capture of Barcelona . He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Navy while at Lisbon the following year . He also commanded the naval element of a combined attack on Toulon , base of the main French fleet , in coordination with the Austrian army under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the summer of 1707 . His life was brought to an end in a disastrous shipwreck in the Isles of Scilly later that year . He also served as MP for Rochester from 1695 to 1701 and from 1705 until his death in 1707
disastrous shipwreck in the Isles of Scilly
Scilly naval disaster of 1707
Cloudesley Shovell