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Wreck of HMS Reynard

Shipwreck site

Position
About 20.6° N, 116.9° E (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 military remains

The position shown is generalised to within about 10 km. The exact position is not published.

The wreck of a military vessel.

This wreck may be the last resting place of those who died aboard. Please treat it with respect.

How this was decided: Voydar's protection rules, from the sources we hold, confidence 85%. When in doubt, Voydar generalises the position.

HMS Reynard was part of the 1847 Program, she was ordered on 25 April as a steam schooner from Deptford Dockyard with the name 'Plumper'. The vessel was reordered on 12 August as an 8-gun sloop as designed by John Edye. She was launched in 1848, conducted anti-piracy work in Chinese waters and was wrecked near Pratas Island in the South China Sea on 31 May 1851. Reynard was the seventh named vessel (spelt Renard or Reynard) since it was introduced for a 18-gun sloop captured from the French in May 1780 by HMS Brune in the West Indies and broken in 1784.

History from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.

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