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The White Ship
Written By Mister Gu on Sunday, July 11, 2010 | 4:50 PM
The White Ship a twelfth-century vessel, sank in the English Channel near the Normandy coast off Barfleur, on 25 November 1120. A tragedy that cost the lives of the flower of English nobility and would eventually plunge the nation into two decades of chaos and misrule – a period that has become known as The Anarchy. The heir to the throne of England and hundreds of scions of noble families