In Popular Culture
Shovell was portrayed by English actor Jonathan Coy in the 2000 television movie Longitude. He is also referred to in Patrick O'Brian's novel "Blue at the Mizzen" in which Mr Woodbine recalls running for the Scillies under full topsails with the wind and hoping not to run on to the reef "like Sir Cloudesley Shovell".
In Robert Goddard's novel Name to a Face, the recovery of the ring Shovell was wearing when the Association sank is central to the plot.
A Halifax tavern named for Shovell appears in Paul Marlowe's Knights of the Sea.
There is psychedelic heavy metal band called 'Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell' that takes its name from the historical figure.
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