![]() ![]() As a fielder, vastly improved.”Įntering BRNC Dartmouth in 1962, he became a Sub Lt RN in September 1964. This cost him his wicket again and again, and yet he seemed to lack the necessary power of determination to overcome it. But he was a bad starter and never overcame his uppish forward defensive shot. The Log stated: “He showed on occasion what an elegant bat he could be. That term he had played in the 1st XI as a middle-order batsman and scored 63 in the match against The Admirals XI. He left a widow Elizabeth, two daughters and four grandchildren.Īt the NCP, Charles was in Macquarie Division but left the College a year early to “coach for the RN” according to a hand-written note scrawled in The Log of Summer Term 1961. ![]() ![]() in bullion if so be the Infante Cardinal lose not upon it Flanders for want of money to pay the soldiers.Charles Heron-Watson (57-61), a retired Commander RN, died peacefully after a short illness on 12th June 2023 aged 79. The merchants of Antwerp will be the greatest losers, for she had in her belonging to them 300,000l. In the State Papers of King Charles I, it states ‘I suppose you have understood of the loss of the Royal Merchant coming into our road, which is the greatest that was ever sustained in one ship, being worth 400,000l. Conversely, if 100,000 pounds was the monetary value then it would be worth in the region of £35 million. The same again in jewels and whatever is meant by ‘ready bullion’ doubles that to somewhere approaching £5 billion. If the 100,000 pounds of gold was the weight and not the monetary value, then at late 2022 prices of around £1,500 per ounce, 100,000lb would be worth in the region of £2.4 billion. A contemporary pamphlet said the ship went down with ‘300000 in ready boliogne’ (bullion) and ‘100,000 pound in gold and as much value in jewels’. Sources have put the value of the sunken treasure as high as £20 billion and as low as £250 million. However, there’s no definitive account of her cargo at the time. The Spanish loot alone included silver bars, gold bullion and Spanish dollars. Whilst it is often called the “British gold ship” or “Land’s End gold ship”, the Royal Merchant’s cargo contained much besides. ![]()
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