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Die ander ding wat ons opgeval het van Scilly was hoe belaai dit is met see-gebonde geskiedenis.  Hier byvoorbeeld is 'n aandenkingsplaat met die volgende inskrywing:

"This stone marks the place where the body of admiral of the fleet, Sir Cloudesley Shovell, was washed ashore after his flagship, HMS Association, was wrecked on the Gilstone Rocks on the night of 22nd October 1707."