HMS Echo 1820
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Marker: recorded wreck position (Age of Sail).
Key facts
| Name | HMS Echo | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Year lost | 1820 | English Wikipedia lead text (year following a loss verb, parsed) |
| Era | Age of Sail | derived from year |
| Ship type | sloop-of-war | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Nationality / flag | United Kingdom | Wikidata P137 operator → P17 country |
| Operator | Royal Navy | Wikidata P137 operator |
| Sea / ocean | Coral Sea | Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon |
| Position | -23.0000, 156.0000 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
HMS Echo, launched in 1797 at Dover, was a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy. She served on the Jamaica station between 1799 and 1806, and there captured a small number of privateers. The Navy sold her in 1809 and she became a whaler. She made four complete whale-hunting voyages but was wrecked in the Coral Sea in April 1820 during her fifth whaling voyage.
Location
- Recorded position: -23.0000, 156.0000 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Sea / ocean: Coral Sea
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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article HMS Echo (1797) (revision 1374830090), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
Wreck facts from Wikidata (CC0).
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