Wreck of HMS Sceptre
Shipwreck site
- Position
- 33.9200° S, 18.4500° E
- Sank
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HMS Sceptre was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 June 1781 at Rotherhithe. She served in the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars before being wrecked in a gale in Table Bay, South Africa, in 1799. The ship was wrecked in a hurricane on 5 November 1799 in Table Bay near the Cape of Good Hope.
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About this wreck
HMS Sceptre is a recorded shipwreck site at 33.9200° S, 18.4500° E. Seadar tracks wreck locations alongside live vessel traffic — free, with sources from Wikidata and public hydrographic records.