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21-534: Great Storm may refer to: Great Storm of 1703 Great Lakes Storm of 1913 North Sea flood of 1953 , also known as The Great Storm of 1953 Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 , also known as The Great Atlantic Storm of 1962 Great Storm of 1975 - Tornado outbreak and large blizzard in the United States Great Storm of 1987 In media [ edit ] The Great Storm (Home and Away) ,

42-490: A convoy of 130 merchant ships sheltering at Milford Haven , along with their man of war escorts Dolphin , Cumberland , Coventry , Looe , Hastings and Hector . By 3:00pm the next afternoon, losses included 30 vessels. The number of oak trees lost in the New Forest alone was 4,000. The towns of Plymouth, Hull, Cowes, Portsmouth and Bristol were devastated. The storm was unprecedented in ferocity and duration and

63-466: A set of episodes which broadcast during the 2011 season of Australian soap opera, Home and Away , in a special story arc. The Great Storm Is Over, a song by Bob Franke See also [ edit ] European windstorm Great Gale (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Great Storm . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

84-515: Is a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) limited to cheddar cheese made in the traditional way in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset or Somerset. ITV West Country is an ITV franchise which broadcasts local news, weather and current affairs programmes over two regions; ITV West Country West covering the Isles of Scilly , Cornwall, Devon and parts of Dorset and Somerset with ITV West Country East covering

105-463: Is a loosely defined area within southwest England, usually taken to include the counties of Cornwall , Devon , Dorset , Somerset and Bristol , with some considering it to extend to all or parts of Wiltshire , Gloucestershire and Herefordshire . The West Country has a distinctive regional English dialect and accent , and is also home to the Cornish language . The West Country is bounded by

126-827: The English Channel to the south and the Atlantic Ocean , Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary to the north. The eastern limit is less clearly defined. Some definitions match that of the official South West England region. In a 2019 YouGov survey, 72% of respondents considered Cornwall and Devon to be in the West Country, while 70% included Somerset, 69% included Bristol, and 55% included Dorset. Other counties received less than 50% agreement, with 28% including Wiltshire, 27% including Gloucestershire, 12% including Herefordshire and 9% including Worcestershire, though those last two counties are officially part of

147-463: The Goodwin Sands . Between 8,000 and 15,000 people died overall. Some sources cite a figure between 10,000 and 30,000. In total, around 300 Royal Navy ships anchored along the south coast were lost. The first Eddystone Lighthouse off Plymouth was destroyed on 8 December [ O.S. 27 November], killing six occupants, including its builder, Henry Winstanley . ( John Rudyard

168-760: The Thames , some 700 ships were heaped together in the Pool of London , the section downstream from London Bridge . Huge waves on the Thames river sent water 6 feet (1.8 m) higher than had ever been recorded in London, destroying more than 5,000 homes along the river. HMS Vanguard was wrecked at Chatham . Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell 's HMS Association was blown from Harwich to Gothenburg in Sweden before way could be made back to England. Pinnacles were blown from

189-563: The Thames Estuary to London or for favourable winds to take them out into the Channel and the Atlantic Ocean . The Royal Navy was badly affected, losing thirteen ships including the entire Channel Squadron, and upwards of 1,500 seamen drowned. Shrewsbury narrowly escaped a similar fate. More than 40 merchant ships were also lost. Lamb (1991) claimed 10,000 seamen were lost in one night—a far higher figure—about one-third of

210-464: The West Midlands region. The term West Country derby is used to refer to sports matches between such cities as Bristol and Bath or Gloucester and Bath. West Country Lamb and West Country Beef are EU Protected Geographical Indications (PGI) covering products from animals born and reared in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire or Gloucestershire. "West Country Farmhouse Cheddar"

231-412: The extremity of it." Coastal towns such as Portsmouth "looked as if the enemy had sackt them and were most miserably torn to pieces". Winds of up to 80 miles per hour (130 km/h) destroyed more than 400 windmills. Defoe reported that the sails in some turned so fast that the friction between the wooden brakes and the wheel caused the wood to overheat and catch fire. He thought that the destruction of

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252-530: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great_Storm&oldid=966343460 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Great Storm of 1703 Contemporary observers recorded barometric readings down to 973 millibars (measured by William Derham in south Essex ), but it has been suggested that

273-832: The palace fell on them, asleep in bed. This same storm blew in part of the great west window in Wells Cathedral . Major damage occurred to the southwest tower of Llandaff Cathedral at Cardiff in Wales . At sea, many ships were wrecked, some of which were returning from helping Archduke Charles , the claimed King of Spain, fight the French in the War of the Spanish Succession . These ships included HMS Stirling Castle , HMS Northumberland , HMS Mary and HMS Restoration , with about 1,500 seamen killed, particularly on

294-557: The remainder of Somerset and Dorset together with Bristol, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. ITV West Country West was an ITV franchise in its own right ( ITV Westcountry ) until 2014 when it merged with that of ITV West , formerly HTV West , having been initially launched as Westcountry Television with its main studios in Plymouth in 1993. West Country Carnivals are held in many towns in and around Somerset. A government -supported museum, galleries, and major attractions atlas matched

315-649: The seamen in the Royal Navy. Defoe's The Storm suggests that the Royal Navy lost one-fifth of its ships; this would, however, indicate a much lower proportion of seamen were lost, as some wrecked sailors survived. The date of 26 November is reckoned according to the Julian calendar , still in use in 1703. In today's Gregorian calendar , the date would be reckoned as 7 December. 51°N 1°W  /  51°N 1°W  / 51; -1 West Country The West Country ( Cornish : An Tir West )

336-487: The sovereign fleet was a punishment for their poor performance against the Catholic armies of France and Spain during the first year of the War of the Spanish Succession . In the English Channel , fierce winds and high seas swamped some vessels outright and drove others onto the Goodwin Sands , an extensive sand bank off the southeast coast of England and the traditional anchorage for ships waiting either for passage up

357-465: The storm deepened to 950 millibars over the Midlands . Retrospective analysis conjectures that the storm was comparable to a Category 2 hurricane. In London alone, approximately 2,000 massive chimney stacks were blown down. The lead roofing was blown off Westminster Abbey and Queen Anne had to shelter in a cellar at St James's Palace to avoid collapsing chimneys and part of the roof. On

378-699: The top of King's College Chapel, in Cambridge . There was extensive and prolonged flooding in the West Country , particularly around Bristol . Hundreds of people drowned in flooding on the Somerset Levels , along with thousands of sheep and cattle, and one ship was found 15 miles (24 km) inland. Approximately 400 windmills were destroyed, with the wind driving their wooden gears so fast that some burst into flames. At Wells , Bishop Richard Kidder and his wife were killed when two chimneystacks in

399-487: Was generally reckoned by witnesses to represent the anger of God , in recognition of the "crying sins of this nation". The government declared 19 January 1704 a day of fasting , saying that it "loudly calls for the deepest and most solemn humiliation of our people". It remained a frequent topic of moralising in sermons well into the 19th century. The great storm also coincided with the increase in English journalism , and

420-580: Was later contracted to build the second lighthouse on the site.) Two days later, a cargo ship struck the rocks and sank. She was the first wrecking to occur there since the lighthouse was constructed five years prior. Another ship, torn from its moorings in the Helford River in Cornwall , was blown for 200 miles (320 km) before grounding eight hours later on the Isle of Wight . The storm also caught

441-458: Was the first weather event to be a news story on a national scale. Special issue broadsheets were produced detailing damage to property and stories of people who had been killed. Daniel Defoe produced his full-length book The Storm (July 1704) in response to the calamity, calling it "the tempest that destroyed woods and forests all over England". He wrote: "No pen could describe it, nor tongue express it, nor thought conceive it unless by one in

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