Location unknown. Wreck of unknown number of Roman warships which were wrecked on the strand at the landing site during a sudden storm during Caesar's first invasions of Britain in 55 & 54 BC from Gaul, most likely in the vicinity of Kent which has traditionally been regarded as the site of the Roman landings. They had been beached on the strand, only to be swamped and broken at a high tide associated with the full moon. Rutupiae, Roman Richborough, may be a strong possibility, but this is not universally accepted, while their departure point may have been Portus Itius (Boulogne-sur-Mer), but, again, there is no consensus. For convenience, therefore, the record has been indexed in Sandwich Bay as approximating to the position of loss, with the caveat that the inter-tidal zone during Iron Age/Roman period is likely now to be inland. Constructed of wood, they would have been powered by both sail and oar, and seem to have acted as both fighting ships and troop transports. There were also the 'ships of burden', that is, the auxiliary transports, also lost in the same storm through collision