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Wreck of HMS Enterprise

United Kingdom

Position
About 53.2° N, 4.4° W (within about 10 km)
Sank
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Cause
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Depth
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Protection status

Location generalised to protect a protected site

The position shown is generalised to within about 10 km. The exact position is not published.

Officially designated: protected shipwreck (Section 1).

Legal basis: protected shipwreck (Section 1).

How this was decided: Seadar's protection rules, from the sources we hold, confidence 90%. When in doubt, Seadar generalises the position.

The seventh HMS Enterprise of the Royal Navy was an armoured sloop launched in 1864 at Deptford Dockyard. Originally laid down as a wooden screw sloop of the Camelion class, she was redesigned by Edward Reed and completed as a central battery ironclad. The ship spent the bulk of her career assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before returning to England in 1871 where she was paid off. Enterprise was sold for scrap in 1885.

History from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.

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