The long-lost rudder of HMS InvincibleBU Maritime Archaeology
Posted on 06/07/2022 11:07:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
“Just when you think you’ve found everything, on a quick return to Invincible we located the 11.5m-long rudder,” reported Bournemouth University Maritime Archaeology, after Rachel Bynoe and Heather Anderson from its diving team had discovered the rare item and fellow-divers Tom Cousins and Lee Hall had followed them down to record it.
It was HMS Invincible’s rudder that had been responsible for the sinking of the warship in the Solent, 264 years earlier.
Built by the French Navy in 1744, Invincible was captured by the Royal Navy at the battle of Cape Finisterre three years later and sailed to Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.
Her innovative design and 74-gun capacity were recorded and rapidly went on to be copied, with her class forming the backbone of the Royal Navy’s fleet right up to the age of steam.
Her demise came in 1758 when the rudder jammed, causing the ship to run aground on a sandbank in the Solent between Langstone Harbour and the Isle of Wight. No lives were lost in the incident, but the vessel sank three days later.
Attempts to recover Invincible failed and the wreck became a “forgotten national treasure” until 1979, when it was rediscovered by scuba divers. Archaeological excavations have been carried out since 2017 by divers of the Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust (MAST), Bournemouth University and Pascoe Archaeology.
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The long-lost rudder of HMS InvincibleBU Maritime Archaeology
Here is the ship....
HMS Invincible (1747)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Invincible_%281747%29
the Invincible sunk itself..
Maybe they should retire the name.
The rudder jammed. That’s why. Everyone knows you should only peanut butter a rudder.
The rudder jammed?
I had thoughts of Lia, the swimmer.
Lol!
The peanut butter works like glue, hence the old saying, I’m rudder, you’re glue...
There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...
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