Great Storm Of 1703

Damage

• At sea, many ships were wrecked with about 8,000 lives lost.
• The first Eddystone Lighthouse was destroyed on November 27, killing six occupants.
• The number of oak trees lost in the New Forest alone was 4,000.
• On the Thames, around 700 ships were heaped together in the Pool, the section downstream from London Bridge.

Beliefs and response

• The storm was generally reckoned to represent the anger of God.
• In recognition of the "crying sins of this nation", the government declared December 16 a day of fasting, saying it "loudly calls for the deepest and most solemn humiliation of our people".

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