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Dunwich Bank Wreck
52.2527° N, 1.6404° E
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The remains of an unknown armed cargo vessel dating to the sixteenth to seventeenth century were identified off Dunwich, Suffolk, England in 1993. The site was designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act on 12 July 1994. The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed by Historic England.
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12 July 1994
Estimated date of wreck
1556–1600
Initial discovery
1993
Recent survey
2020
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