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HMS Ramillies 1760 Plymouth A 130cm long section of ship's timber from the 2nd Rate Man O'War Ramillies built in 1664 as the Katherine or Royal Katherine. On 15th February 1760, at the height of the Seven Years War, HMS Ramillies, a 90-gun second-rate ship with a company of 734, was wrecked in a great storm under the towering cliffs of Bolt Tail, which lies fourteen miles, as the crow flies east of Plymouth near the small fishing village of Hope Cove. In poor visibility, the master of the Ramillies mistook Burgh Island for Looe Island which lies west of Plymouth. Too late in realizing his mistake he missed stays off Bolt Head and was forced to anchor off the Bolt. with her best bower in the early afternoon. A little later, rapidly taking in water with all hands at the pumps the Ramillies started to drive from her anchors and was finally wrecked at dusk. Hundreds of bodies were cast ashore over the following days and those lost included her captain James Wittewronge-Taylor. Only 23 men survived by climbing the cliffs, including a midshipman, John Harrold, who reported the loss of the Ramillies to Admiral Boscawen on board his flagship Royal William in Plymouth Sound the following afternoon.Between 1982 and 1987 a small team of divers led by Peter McBride carried out the dedicated survey and excavation of the wreck site The Ramillies Archaeology Group included his two sons, David and Godfrey and Bob and Gill Michael, divers of Plymouth Sound BSAC.
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