She was doomed, she was flooding and she was going down, but she had reached a point where there was an illusion that she would float a longer period. People were inside, not panicked, and suddenly the hull cracked.
"Roger Long" was an England/English astronomer, and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge/Pembroke College, University of Cambridge/Cambridge between 1733 and 1770.
Roger Long was the son of Thomas Long of Croxton, Norfolk. He was educated at Norwich School (independent school)/Norwich School and later admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1696/7. Graduating BA in 1700/1, he became a fellow of Pembroke. He was ordained in 1716, and became Rector of Orton Waterville. He became a Doctor of Divinity in 1728, and Master of Pembroke in 1733. From 1750 until 1770 he was the first holder of the Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry/Lowndean Professorship of Astronomy.
One of the great characters of eighteenth-century Cambridge, he built a "water-work" in his garden and paddled round it on a water-cycle. He also constructed a "zodiack", now considered to be the first planetarium, a hollow sphere that could hold thirty people showing the movements of the planets and constellations which remained in the grounds of Pembroke until 1871.
More Roger Long on Wikipedia.It is not so much a matter of saying that this IS what happened but that this is the story that the pieces documented by The History Channel 2005 Expedition tell when put together with the body of knowledge accumulated previously.
The breakup was not just something that happened as the ship made her final plunge, but the breakup began the final plunge.
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