| Invincible |
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| Location |
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Place Name : Horse Tail, East Solent |
Lat / Long : 50 ° 44 ' 18 '' North - 1 ° 2' 12'' West |
System used to obtain Long / Lat : unknown |
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Square : 0 |
8 Figure : 0 |
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| Construction |
| Type : 74 gun 3rd rate |
Built : 1744 |
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Shipyard : Rochefort, France
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Hull material : oak |
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| Dimensions |
| Size : 1800 tonnes |
Length : 57 m |
Beam : 16 m |
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| History |
| Sunk : 1758 |
Cause : hit sand bank |
Date Found : 1979 |
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| Depth |
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Shallowest |
Deepest |
| Top : |
6 m |
0 m |
Deck :
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7 m |
0 m |
| Bed : |
7 m |
0 m |
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| Postition |
| Orientation : N |
Lying : On port side |
Condition : Extensive breakup |
Seabed Type : Sand
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Artifacts : At national collection - Chatham Historic Dockyard |
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| Wreck Owner |
| Owner : The Admiralty and National Monuments |
Access : No access
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War Grave : Unknown |
Protected : Unknown |
| Restrictions : An area within 100m radius of position 50° 44.34' N., 01° 02.23' W.. Charts affected: 2050, 3418.
This site is a designated Historic Wreck under the Protection of Wrecks Act, 1973 |
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| When to Dive Best time to dive the wreck, relative to high wate |
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Notes : |
The Invincible (originally L' Invincible), a 74 gun third rate, was captured from the French in 1747 and lost in 1758. The site of her loss, relocated in 1979, has been partially excavated and a large number of objects have been raised and conserved. Some of these artefacts can be found at Chatham Historic Dockyard.
ADU designation: September 30, 1980; 1980 No. 2; 1980/1307.
ADU licences: 1980-1 excavation; 1982 survey; 1983-90 excavation; 1991-4 survey. |
References : |
Bingeman, J. M., 1985, Interim report on artefacts recovered from Invincible (1758) between 1979 and 1984. IJNA 14.3: 191-210.
Bingeman, J., 1981, HMS Invincible (1758) wreck site. IJNA 10.2: 154-6.
Lavery, B., 1988, The Royal Navy's first Invincible. Portsmouth. ISBN 0-7153-9028-7.
Mack, A. T., 1992, The influence of the French on British shipbuilding in the eighteenth century. Flagship (Journal of the World Ship Trust) 1:14-26.
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| Supplementary Imformation |
Added by:
ZX7Kirk
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Posted on : September 12, 2008
I am new to diving and i was wondering how you go about organising a dive on a protected wreck? it would be awesome to dive on this wreck. do you have to be a qualified marine archaeologist?
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