HMS Anne 1690
Marker: recorded wreck position (Age of Sail).
Key facts
| Name | HMS Anne | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Year lost | 1690 | English Wikipedia lead text (year following a loss verb, parsed) |
| Era | Age of Sail | derived from year |
| Ship type | third-rate | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Cause of loss | Grounding or wreck on rocks | Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence |
| Nationality / flag | United Kingdom | Wikidata P137 operator → P17 country |
| Operator | Royal Navy | Wikidata P137 operator |
| Sea / ocean | English Channel | Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon |
| Nearest coast | England | official dataset |
| Position | 50.8909, 0.6968 | Historic England Protected Wreck Sites, listed latitude/longitude (OGL v3) |
| Protected Wreck | List entry 1000060 | Historic England |
| Designated | 1974-05-23 | Historic England |
| Restricted area | 1.77 ha | Historic England |
| Grid reference | TQ 89766 13625 | Historic England |
About the wreck
HMS Anne was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English, built under the 1677 Construction Programme by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard during 1677/78. She fought in the War of English Succession 1688 to 1697. She took part in the Battle of Beachy Head (1690) where she was severely damaged and dismasted, and ran aground near Rye, East Sussex on 6 July 1690. She was burnt by the English to avoid capture by the French. The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed by Historic England.
She was the sixth vessel to bear the name Anne since it was first used for a ballinger built at Southampton in 1416 and sold on 26 June 1426. However, the 1677 naming was probably in honour of the king's niece Anne (daughter of James II, and later Queen Anne).
Diving & visiting
This is a designated Protected Wreck under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973. Under the Act, diving on or otherwise interfering with the wreck inside its restricted area requires a licence; see the Historic England list entry for details.
The wreck was reported visible at low tides in early 1903.
The remains, on the low water mark of the beach near Pett Level, East Sussex, were designated under the British Protection of Wrecks Act on 20 June 1974. The wreck is owned by the Nautical Museums Trust (Shipwreck Museum Hastings).
Location
- Recorded position: 50.8909, 0.6968 (Historic England Protected Wreck Sites, listed latitude/longitude (OGL v3); may be approximate)
- Sea / ocean: English Channel
- Nearest coast: England
Wreck positions on this site are for interest only and are not for navigation. Many wrecks are war graves or legally protected: never disturb human remains or remove artefacts, and check local law before diving.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article HMS Anne (1678) (revision 1327318519), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section and section(s) “Wreck”; condensed by selecting paragraphs; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
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