HMS Royal Katherine (HMS Ramilles after 1706) was an 84-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1664 at Woolwich Dockyard. Her launching was conducted by Charles II and attended by Samuel Pepys. Royal Katherine fought in the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars and the War of the Grand Alliance before returning to the dockyard at Portsmouth for supplies in 1702.
She was upgraded to carry 90 guns and served in the War of the Spanish Succession during which she was renamed Ramillies in honor of John Churchill’s victory at the Battle of Ramillies. She was rebuilt again in 1742-3 before serving as the flagship of the ill-fated Admiral John Byng in the Seven Years’ War A navigation error and huricane  brought her near bolt head where she tried to anchot half a mile offshore.  She broke lose in the South Westerly storm and was driven into the cliffs. Ramillies was wrecked about half a mile east of Hope cove on 15 February 1760. Only 26 men managed to scrabble up the rocks and over 700 men had drowned. Many of them were buried on local beaches in the area.

For many years Steve & Neville have been searching the area for the wreck of the San Pedro El Major and have come actross may magnetic targets. In 2014 divers were put down of an area of interest and found the area that the Ramillies had put her anchors down about half a mile out to sea.
The achor found could only have come from the Ramillies and its rope had clearly chaffed on the reef above. Although large this was probably not the main anchor and the rest are probably one of the targets in the surrounding area.