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Researchers reveal secret find of 340-year-old sunken royal warship

A royal warship that sank off the east coast of Britain more than 300 years ago while carrying a future king was unveiled by researchers on Friday who kept the discovery secret for 15 years to protect the wreck from damage.

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The shipwreck revealed various historical artefacts, including a bottle bearing a glass seal with the crest of the Legge family - ancestors of the first U.S. President George Washington.