HMS Coronation
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.
Coronation | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| England | |
| Name | Coronation |
| Ordered | 1678 |
| Builder | Isaac Betts, Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Launched | 23 May 1685 |
| Commissioned | 14 February 1690 |
| Fate | Wrecked, 3 September 1691 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | 90-gun second-rate ship of the line |
| Tons burthen | 1,345 (bm) |
| Length | 160 ft 4 in (48.9 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam | 44 ft 9 in (13.6 m) |
| Depth of hold | 18 ft 2 in (5.5 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Armament | 90 guns of various weights of shot |
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