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HMS Coronation
50.3167° N, -4.1833° E
About
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.
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Loss of the ship
3 September 1691
Commissioned
14 February 1690
Change of command
29 October 1690
Battle of Beachy Head
30 June 1690
Launch
1685
Part of wreck discovered
1967
Protection under law
1973
Second offshore site found
1977
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