wreck - GPS Places and POI

Download POI's to Garmin
Download TomTom POI

1310 results (Limited to 1000 in beta) (0.000 0.068424940109253 0.071913003921509)

Select All
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

Place	Location	Category	Description
The Segontium (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / Wales / Valley	interesting place	"She was a dodgy boat. Her stability was suspect. But then, she was designed by engineers, so what can you expect?" Captain Raymond Phillips, who had been one of the Segontium's captains, was talking to me about the ship. He
The Persier (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / England / Yealmpton	interesting place	She was a ship which died in the night, and nobody saw her going. Or knew where she was, although her cargo of food, which had been intended for the starving in newly liberated Belgium, now rolled and tumbled in
Light Vessel 83 (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / England / Easington	interesting place	How anyone could fail to see the great central lamp-tower sticking up from a lightship on a calm sea in the brilliant sunshine of an August morning in 1967 beggars belief. How anyone could fail to see in such perfect
The Hinrich Hey (Wreck)(en)	France / Bretagne / Saint-Malo	wreck	Surprisingly, it took only four minutes to sink the sturdy steam trawler Hinrich Hey. She had been specially built in Hamburg in 1934 to stand the shocks of fishing amid the ice of Arctic waters, with strengthened hull and an
The Heidrun (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / England / Porthleven	interesting place	The Heidrun was a single-funnel 972-tonner, with a two-cylinder engine and two boilers producing 115hp. At times in her long life she had also been called the Dalny and the Vildosala. Over Christmas, 1915, Heidrun was loaded with anthracite in
The Shuna (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / Scotland / Tobermory	interesting place	The shelter which Captain Elsper had hoped to find in the Sound of Mull for his heavily laden steamer, the 1426 ton Shuna, was there but only just. A big storm had tried to push him on to the Scottish
The Kyarra (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / England / Swanage	interesting place	"The ship that was made of brass" was what they called the 6953 ton Kyarra, a twin-screw passenger and cargo liner, 415ft long with a beam of 52ft, when she was launched by Denny Bros in Dumbarton on 2 February,
SMS Brummer (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / Scotland / Stromness	shipwreck	For her size she was fast. When she finished her sea trials in 1916, the German Navy knew that the 4,308 ton light cruiser Brummer was going to be as good as the other eight in the Bremse class, possibly
SMS König (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / Scotland / Stromness	shipwreck	Battleship - König class Commission: Ordered in August 1911 the König was built at Wilhelmshaven. She was launched on 1st March 1913 and completed on 10th Aug 1914. History: The König was in the 3rd Battleship Squadron. She fought at
SMS Dresden (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / Scotland / Stromness	shipwreck	Light Cruiser - Dresden II class Commission: Built at Kiel and launched April 1917. History: The Dresden laid a few mines off Embden and was attacked by a British submarine in August 1917. Owing to a turbine failure she was
SMS Karlsruhe (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / Scotland / Stromness	shipwreck	www.shipwrecksofscotland.com/sms_karlsruhe.htm Light Cruiser - Konigsberg II class Commission: The Karlsruhe was completed in January 1916 at Wilhelmshaven. History: The Karlsruhe saw a little action around the Baltic islands in 1917 and did some minelaying and guard duty in 1918. Sank
HMS Vanguard (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / Scotland / Kirkwall	shipwreck	The Vanguard was the victim of an internal explosion. Her magazine was detonated by unstable cordite and within seconds the battleship was annihilated together with all but three of her 800 crew and officers. One of her 12 inch turrets
SMS Bremse (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / Scotland / Stromness	shipwreck	Light Cruiser - Bremse class Commission: Launched in April 1916 at Stettin. History: The Brummer and Bremse took part in a raiding operation against a convoy bound from Bergen to the Shetlands in October 1917. They massacred the convoy and
The Inverlane (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / Scotland / Stromness	shipwreck	The Inverlane is one of the blockships in Burra Sound near to Stromness. She was one of the obvious shipwreck sights that people on the Scrabster to Stromness ferry see as they round the island of Hoy in towards Scapa
F2 Escort Vessel (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / Scotland / Stromness	shipwreck	The F2 is a good second dive. She is submerged in Gutter Sound (near Lyness) at 18m. Although (despite) her stern is badly damaged, she is a thoroughly good rummage wreck. A lot of life around her. Commission: Built at
The Gobernador Bories (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / Scotland / Stromness	shipwreck	The Gobernador Bories is another of the blockships lying in Burra Sound. Although she is near the Inverlane (300m S - SE) she is entirely submerged. It is quite common to start a dive on the Inverlane, swim over to
HMS Roedean (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / Scotland / Stromness	shipwreck	HMS Roedean was built at Barrow and completed in 1897. She displaced over 1000 tons and was 280 feet long. History: At the start of WW1 the Royal Navy took her over and converted her into a minesweeper. Ironically, it
V83 Torpedo Boat Destroyer (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / Scotland / Stromness	shipwreck	Torpedo-boat destroyer, V 67-84 class Commission: Built by A.G. Vulcan at Hamburg during 1916 History: She joined the German Fleet days after Jutland. She took part in patrols off Heligoland Bight and probably attacked ships in the English Channel. Sank
The Brittania (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / England / North_Sunderland	interesting place	They say that in the autumn of 1915 you could always tell a Farnes fisherman not only because he was wearing new Army boots, but because both his left foot and his right foot were in boots made for the
The Borgny (Wreck)(en)	United_Kingdom / England / Christchurch	interesting place	The 1149 ton Norwegian steamer Borgny, 228ft long with a beam of 36ft, was sunk while heading up-Channel near the Isle of Wight on 26 February, 1918, carrying 1500 tons of coal from Newport for Rouen. Those are the basic

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

1310 results

Wikipedia Wikimapia OpenStreetMap

geodeg.com 2011