Coronation
2nd Rate
Wrecked 1691
Larn
‘ - and Admiral Russell being come up as far as Plymouth, and our coast being a lee shore to southerly winds, it then blowing hard and fearing bad weather, Admiral Russell bore up and sailed into Plymouth Sound. A great part of the fleet followed him, and running so hastily one upon another, caused many of them to run on board of one another. Some ran into the Catwater, and in running into the Hamoaze, three or four ran ashore, one of them of 60 odd guns, named the HARWICH . . the CORONATION, coming into the Sound and her anchor being let go, veered out cable to bring her up. She took a salley and sank down to rightes in about 22 fathoms, having on board above 500 men, and not 20 of them saved . .’ The CORONATION in fact capsized about 1.5 miles offshore, dropping all her upper deck armament, bell and fittings on the sea bed, then drifted ashore off Lady Island and cove, where she broke up in the shallows, and where the rest of her armament can be found.'
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Finds
09A09 Scupper
09A10 Nail
09A16 Nail
10A06 Lid
10A15 Spur
References
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