The <i id="mwIg"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Ship" id="mwIw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="White Ship">White Ship</a></i> sinks in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Channel" id="mwJA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="English Channel">English Channel</a>, drowning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adelin" id="mwJQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Adelin">William Adelin</a>, son and heir of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I_of_England" id="mwJg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Henry I of England">Henry I of England</a>.<sup about="#mwt17" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_25#cite_note-2" id="mwJw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwKA">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2">There are seven accounts of the disaster: <a href="./Orderic_Vitalis" id="mwByE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Orderic Vitalis">Orderic Vitalis</a>, <i id="mwByI">Historia ecclesiastica</i> 12.26 (ed. and trans. Chibnall, 1978, pp. 294–307); <a href="./William_of_Malmesbury" id="mwByM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William of Malmesbury">William of Malmesbury</a>, <i id="mwByQ">Gesta regum Anglorum</i> 5.419 (ed. and trans. Mynors, Thomson, and Winterbottom, 1998, pp. 758–763); <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Simeon_of_Durham" id="mwByU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Simeon of Durham">Simeon of Durham</a>, <i id="mwByY">Historia regum</i> 100.199 (ed. T. Arnold, 1885, vol. 2, pp. 258–9); <a href="./Eadmer" id="mwByc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eadmer">Eadmer</a>, <i id="mwByg">Historia nouorum in Anglia</i> (ed. M. Rule, 1884, pp. 288–9), <a href="./Henry_of_Huntingdon" id="mwByk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Henry of Huntingdon">Henry of Huntingdon</a>, <i id="mwByo">Historia Anglorum</i> 7.32 (ed. and trans. Greenway, 1996, pp. 466–7), <a href="./Hugh_the_Chanter" id="mwBys" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hugh the Chanter">Hugh the Chanter</a>, <i id="mwByw">History of the Church at York</i> (ed. and trans. Johnson, 1990, pp. 164–5), <a href="./Robert_of_Torigni" id="mwBy0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Robert of Torigni">Robert of Torigni</a>, <i id="mwBy4">Gesta Normannorum ducum</i> (ed. and trans. E. van Houts, 1995, vol. 2, pp. 216–19, 246–51, 274–7), and <a href="./Wace" id="mwBy8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wace">Wace</a>, <i id="mwBzA">Roman de Rou</i>, pt. iii, lines 10173–262 (ed. A. Holden, 1973, vol. 2, pp. 262–6).</span>