This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms coronation (part), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 18.601 N,4 12.051 W (50.1442, -4.17415)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.
Name: HMS CORONATION (PART)
Length 43 meter, width: 13.4 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1426 ton
Cause: foundered while at anchor off rame head in strong se gale. over 600 lives lost.
Year of registration: 1978
Water depth above wreck: 13 meter
Known since: 1978, last detected: 2015
Details measurements/cartography: H1291/77 22.3.78 AREA WITHIN 150MTRS OF 501834N, 041159W [OGB] DESIGNATED AS PROTECTED SITE. (STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 321/78). BR STD. H3640/68 5.2.79 DG RANGE PROHIBITED AREA TO BE AMENDED TO ACCOMMODATE POSN OF THIS WRECK. (PLYMOUTH LOCAL NM 4/79). BR STD. H2016/81 30.4.82 NOTHING FOUND USING DCS3 & E/S. ROCKY AREA WITH INFILLING SAND. SHOALEST DEPTHS WITHIN DESIGNATED AREA, 9.4 & 10.6MTRS. GEN DEPTHS 12-14MTRS. CHIEF DIVER AT RN DIVING CENTRE, HMS DRAKE, STATES ONLY SMALL PIECES OF WKGE REMAIN. (HMS HECATE, HI 46). NCA. 15.9.82 IT IS THOUGHT BY A. BAX, FORT BOVISAND DIVING CENTRE, THAT THE 'PENLEE SITE' WK, SOME 0.5M NE OF THIS POSN, AND ON WHICH SOME 50 CANNON FROM LATE 17TH CENTURY, SCATTERED OVER A 170MTRS PATH, HAVE BEEN FOUND, IS LIKELY TO BE AN EXTENSION OF THE 'CORONATION' WK SITE. (NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, VOL 11 NO 3, AUG '82). SEE [17912]. 24.5.12 NOT LOCATED BY M/B, DCS3 & MAGNETOMETER. (HMS ROEBUCK, HI 1296). NCA. SEP 2014/000201537 24.11.15 NOT LOCATED IN M/B DATASET. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (EGS, HI 1467). RETAIN PREVIOUS RECORD. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 50 18.601 N,4 12.051 W