Wreck of HMS Coronation
United Kingdom
- Position
- About 50.4° N, 4.2° W (within about 10 km)
- Sank
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- Cause
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- Depth
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Protection status
Location generalised to protect a protected site
The position shown is generalised to within about 10 km. The exact position is not published.
Officially designated: Protected Wreck (Protection of Wrecks Act 1973, named in the history text).
Legal basis: Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 (UK).
How this was decided: Voydar's protection rules, from the sources we hold, confidence 90%. When in doubt, Voydar generalises the position.
Coronation was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard as part of the '30 great ships programme' of 1677, and launched in 1685. She was lost in a storm off Rame Head, Cornwall on 3 September 1691 and is designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973. The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed by Historic England.
History from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
About this wreck
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