The Wreck of the Kyber
The Kyber was an iron windjammer of 1967 tons, launched on Merseyside in 1880 for the Indian trade of the Brocklebank Shipping Line. In 1899 she was sold to the Calgate Shipping Company of liverpool...
View ArticleThe Wreck of the Suevic
Many ships have fallen foul of the Lizard with its dense fog and treacherous seas, and in 1907 the White Star liner Suevic joined that infamous club when it was wrecked on rocks just yards from the...
View ArticleThe Cutty Sark
I first saw the Cutty Sark in 1980. It was in the same dry dock as it is now, but Greenwich then was a very different place to what it is now. Then it was very rundown, but now with the coming of the...
View ArticleThe Wreck of the Athina B
I lived in Brighton until I was about 24, and in all those years we never had a shipwreck, in spite of seeing loads of ships sailing back and forth on the horizon. There once was a dead whale washed up...
View ArticleLawrence of Arabia
Thomas Edward Lawrence, born in 1888 was better known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia. A complex, charismatic man, Lawrence rose to fame during the Arab Revolt of 1916 when he tried to get Arab...
View ArticleCapt.Frederick Thornton Peters. VC
I am grateful to Sam Mc bride for the following information and photo. The man who tragically lost his life in the Sunderland, just prior to receiving his VC was his uncle, Captain Frederick Thornton...
View ArticleThe Sunderland Flying Boats of Plymouth
During the Second World War, Mountbatten was home to No. 10 Squadron Royal Australian Air force, and those now deserted hangars hummed with activity as they serviced , the needs of the Squadron's...
View ArticleLawrence of Arabia at R.A.F. Mountbatten, Plymouth
Just about everybody has seen the film Lawrence of Arabia, which more or less correctly portrays T.E. Lawrence rushing around the dessert on a camel inspiring various Arab tribes to fight on behalf of...
View ArticleFlight Sargent W.Granger
I am gratefull to Vivian Granger (daughter) for the details and photos of her father below. Wilfred Bert Granger was born 26/4/1917 in Melbourne Australia and moved too Western Australia in 1929 where...
View ArticleThe Wreck of the Gairsoppa
In 1940 Britain stood alone again the might of Germany who had conquered most of Europe. At sea the U boat packs waged a savage attack against Allied shipping which struggled to bring supplies to a...
View ArticleMorthoe Shipwrecks-Collier,Newtown,Priestfield and H.M.S.Weazel
Mortehoe is a jewel of a village set almost on the coast of North Devon. Nearby is Morte Point, Baggy Point and Rockham Bay. All of them have seen shipwrecks and storms so the beauty of the area is...
View ArticleTitanic Museum-Belfast
Museums to me are often or not dull affairs to which I am forced to go to find the information or artefact I require for my research. The Titanic museum in Belfast is a very great exception to that...
View ArticleHMS. Goliath – William Earnest Wood
I am always amazed at how the small churchyards in the villages of Devon and Cornwall can yield so many wreck stories, many of which have happened hundreds of miles away on a foreign shore. Thurlestone...
View ArticleCapt.Ernest George William Davidson and the Otranto
It is quite rare for a person to have two graves, but Capt.E.G.W.Davidson was such a man, with a memorial in Thurlestone Churchyard in Devon, and his actual grave in Islay. The grave in Thurlestone I...
View ArticleWreck of the Secil Japan at Hell’s Mouth
The Secil Japan was a cargo ship of 2625 gross tonnage, nearly 300ft long with a beam of about 50 ft. Built by Iami Seisakysho Kamijima, she was launched in 1982. On the 12th of March 1989, the Secil...
View ArticleThe Wreck of the SV. Carl at Booby’s Bay
The violent storms that have lashed Britain’s coastline this winter have caused untold damage and misery. But for those of us that like old shipwrecks, there has been an unintended silver lining as a...
View ArticleThe Wreck of the Bellem at Northcot Mouth
The great cliffs north of Bude seem to attract shipwrecks, and in the old days the cliftops were dotted with iron stanchions and cables remaining from previous salvage work. The Bellem, a 1925 ton...
View ArticleWreck of Romanie at Polridmouth Bay
Cornwall has so many wrecks that you can literally trip over them, and that’s just what I did with the wreck of the Romanie whilst I was on a walk out to the Daymark on Gribben head. I had often seen...
View ArticleCyprus Shipwreck Trail
Within easy reach of Paphos are two shipwrecks. The first is on the road out towards Coral Bay at a hotel called the Capital Coast. You cant miss it, and there is plenty of room to park off road. At...
View ArticleThe Wreck of the Conqueror
The Conqueror is the ship that started it all for me. I had always been interested in shipwrecks, and had already dived on many. But until the Conqueror, I had not really thought about documenting...
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