HMS Winchester was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line

Ship of the line

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 of the English

Kingdom of England

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 Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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, launched at Bursledon

Bursledon

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 on 11 April 1693.

In 1695, Winchester foundered on Carysfort Reef in the Florida Keys

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 and was lost. The remains of the wreck—now consisting of nothing more than cannon balls—were discovered in 1938 lying approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of the Carysfort Reef Light

Carysfort Reef Light

Carysfort Reef Light is located approximately six nautical miles east of Key Largo, Florida. The lighthouse has an iron screw-pile foundation with a platform, and a skeletal octagonal pyramidal tower, which is painted red. The light is 100 feet above the water. The original lens was a first order...

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