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| Built at Woolwich and launched in 1709, a Fifth Rate galley frigate and the last oared fighting ship built for the Royal Navy. Carrying Lord Belhaven, new Governor of Barbados, to West Indies in 1721, bad weather forced return to Falmouth whereupon she wa.. |
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| Following archaeological assessment in 2004, this wreck is thought to represent the remains of an early seventeenth century armed vessel. Since the site first came to attention it has proven to be unstable and subject to dramatic shifts in exposure levels.. |
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| The London was a Second Rate ‘Large Ship’ built in Chatham in 1654 during the Interregnum. She is known to have participated in the First Dutch War (1652-4) and later formed part of an English Squadron sent to collect Charles II from the Netherlands and r.. |
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| Third rate 70-gun warship built 1678 as part of Samuel Pepys’ regeneration of the English navy. The first third rate ship to be built under contract, after it was realised that the naval dockyards could not cope with the construction of the number of ship.. |
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| Although there is no definite evidence, this wreck of a wooden warship is thought to be the remains of the Restoration, a third rate 70-gun warship built 1678 as part of Samuel Pepys’ regeneration of the English navy. Along with the Northumberland and Sti.. |
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| The VOC (Dutch East Company) ship Rooswijk was built in Amsterdam in 1737 but stranded on the Goodwin Sands in 1739 while en route from the Texel to the East Indies. The site represents archaeological evidence for the practice of large-scale overseas comm.. |
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| One of twenty, third rate 70-gun warships, built 1678 at Deptford as part of Samuel Pepys’ regeneration of the English navy. Like the Northumberland and the Restoration she was rebuilt at Chatham in 1699. All three ships foundered on the Goodwin Sands dur.. |
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| A 54-gun Fourth Rate Ship of the Line, captured from the French in 1703 and refitted for the Royal Navy. Grounded on a reef in Bracklesham Bay during storm in 1706 while acting as escort for convoy en route from Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, to the Thames Est.. |
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| Built by Vickers in 1903, the A1 is the first British designed and built submarine used by the Royal Navy. She sank for the second time in 1911 while operating under automatic pilot as a submerged target. The site has been subject to unauthorised access a.. |
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