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Jamie K

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reading NAM Rogers' Command of the Ocean right now and repeating the name Sir Cloudesley Shovell to myself in different funny voices. The dog's looking a bit alarmed.

September 24, 2026 at 10:21 PM

Progressive Rock Journal

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[News] Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell unveil official video for second single "Kind Boy" from fifth album "The Trouble With The Shovell"

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[News] Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell unveil official video for second single "Kind Boy" from fifth album "The Trouble With The Shovell"

Hastings, UK based Heavy Rock/proto-Metal band Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell have unveiled official video for second single “Kind Boy” taken from fifth album, “The Trouble With The Shovell,” released...

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September 14, 2026 at 1:50 PM

Des Walsh

@deswalsh.bsky.social

Cloudesley Road, London N1

Former shops turned homes with wooden and glazed tile frontages with ghost sign on brick wall

#reference #materialreference #buildingreference

August 16, 2026 at 10:38 PM

Des Walsh

@deswalsh.bsky.social

Cloudesley Road, London N1

Painted ghost sign on brick wall

#reference #materialreference #buildingreference

Painted ghost sign on brick wall

“DISPENSING CHEMIST
HOURS OF BUSINESS
TOILET & NORSERY REQUISITES
PHOTOGRANHIC
MATERILS”

August 16, 2026 at 10:35 PM

Battlefield Design

@battlefieldgd.bsky.social

Du kan ikke gå galt med Sergeant Thunderhoof eller Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell...

August 10, 2026 at 11:54 AM

Decoy Flight Attendant

@jw1958.bsky.social

And the meme Hegseth is adopting is literally one that takes the piss out of performative martinet wankers like him.

Admiral Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell hanger an amateur navigator in his crew who said fleet would hit rocks - whose fleet then foundered on the fucking rocks, killing 2000 sailors!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jul 16

Reckless, juvenile, performative idiot in too much makeup.

July 16, 2026 at 3:02 PM

Frank Van Haste

@vanhaste.com

And speaking of "lost at sea", have a search on Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell to see the disaster that finally got Parliament to say, "Enough!"

July 7, 2026 at 2:43 PM

Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦

@woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social

My new favourite late 17th-century name: the Williamite admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell (1650-1707; drowned with his fleet in the Scilly naval disaster). Almost as good a name as Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film.

July 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf

@eliaseells.bsky.social

Happy Father's Day! I pulled together this stack of books featuring fathers and exploring fatherhood: from the dads who are Perfect and Kind to the ones who are... not, mentors & protectors, priests, psychics, soldiers, & kings, good & the bad alike in one of our earliest & strongest relationships.

A stack of books (bottom to top): THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER by Simon Jimenez, THE TRAVELER by Joseph Eckert, THE RUIN OF KINGS by Jenn Lyons, NAVOLA by Paolo Bacigalupi, KALYNA THE SOOTHSAYER by Elijah Kinch Spector, DAY BOY by Trent Jamieson, THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera, DAEDALUS IS DEAD by Seamus Sullivan, THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN by Jennifer Giesbrecht, THE SECOND SIGHT OF ZACHARY CLOUDESLEY by Sean Lusk, LAST FIRST SNOW by Max Gladstone

June 21, 2026 at 3:04 PM

Things Have History

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John Harrison's H4 and the Longitude Prize

On the night of 22 October 1707, four British warships ran onto the rocks of the Isles of Scilly off Cornwall’s southwest coast. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell’s squadron had miscalculated its position by nearly 60 miles. Around 1,400 sailors drowned. The ships knew their latitude — that much was…

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June 17, 2026 at 1:54 PM

Rock Hard Greece [Unofficial]

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ADMIRAL SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL – “The trouble with the shovel” (Rise Above Records)

Ο Johnny Gorilla (κιθάρα, φωνή) και ο Louis Comfort-Wiggett (μπάσο), είναι δύο απίστευτα cool τύποι, που αρέσκονται στο 70s heavy rock και η αγαπημένη τους μπάντα, είναι οι SIR LORD BALTIMORE. Ο Sir Cloudesley Shovell (1650-1707), ήταν ναύαρχος του βρετανικού ναυτικού κατά τον πόλεμο της Ισπανικής Διαδοχής και πρωταγωνιστής ενός από τα πλέον πολύνεκρα ναυάγια […]

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June 16, 2026 at 12:19 PM

Saskiarghhhhh Daniel

@saskiadanielceramics.com

Not my fault. Misspelled in the book

...For one woman, out strolling on Porth Hellick beach on St Mary's on 22 October 1707, the surprise was Sir Cloudesley Shovel, Admiral of the Fleet, ... was wrecked on the one Rock along with three other ships, and two thousand vere lost. Sir Cloudesley was miraculously still just alive, ...

June 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM

H E N R Y Mouland

@hmouland.bsky.social

The Crown @ Cloudesley Square is the one

May 31, 2026 at 4:11 PM

The Sleeping Shaman

@thesleepingshaman.bsky.social

⚡ New Review ⚡

Matthew dives into Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell 'The Trouble With The Shovell' – a filthy, grubby sound for a modern age. Read the full review over at The Sleeping Shaman👇

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@funkynoise74.bsky.social

Review: Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell 'The Trouble With The Shovell' - The Sleeping Shaman

Matthew reviews Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell 'The Trouble With The Shovell' – a filthy, grubby sound for a modern age.

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May 27, 2026 at 11:03 AM

Boeleke 🐻

@boelekeopreis.bsky.social

This house dates from the 15th c and is thought to have been home to the mother of the wonderfully named Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell (1650-1707). As a naval officer he is unfortunately most well known for the circumstances in which he died. #bearinEngland #Hastings

May 23, 2026 at 3:08 PM

Ceryl

@politicdormouse.bsky.social

Maud Cloudesley Brereton headmistress, Principal @homertoncollege.bsky.social then v influential in #publichealth in domestic field advocating benefits of gas in home. Wrote several book, 'gallant woman who believed in women’ Womens Eng Soc memb b #OTD 19 May 1872 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._A._C...

Maud Cloudesley Brereton as young woman B&W photo in high collared late C19th mutton sleeved dress #WomenInSTEM

May 19, 2026 at 10:16 PM

Mike Foster

@swanmore.bsky.social

I think the RN should commemorate some of its more famous failures when naming ships - like HMS Tryon, HMS Byng and (my favourite) HMS Cloudesley Shovell

May 16, 2026 at 4:31 PM

Good SquidDance Macabre

@squidfromspace.bsky.social

They should do Sir Cloudesley Shovell; kinda Master and Commander vibes, only revolving around an absolute dickhead, who ultimately gets entirely what's coming to him.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰 @sophianyx.bsky.social · May 4

Name a person who should have a biopic

May 4, 2026 at 2:56 PM

KDRT 95.7 FM

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This week on Divine Intervention: #newmusic from the Darts, the Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Heavenly, Russ Tolman, San Kasagascar ... tunes from our Goddess of the Month + Vinyl Vespers. The fun starts at 6p PT on KDRT 95.7fm + KDRT.org ... anytime on web + podcasts!

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