United Kingdom

HMS Coronation

Restoration-era naval shipwreck off Cornwall, 1691

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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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United Kingdom

Coordinates

50.32° N, -4.18° E