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The Chadwick (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / Scotland / Portree interesting placeCaptain Kemp had no excuse. He said that he was tired. Of course he was - he had supervised loading the coal, brought his 1463-ton cargo steamer Chadwick down the Clyde from Glasgow, run south to round the Mull of
The Dakotian (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / Wales / Milford_Haven interesting placeTowards the close of 1940, German Heinkel 111H bombers from captured airfields in France began using new methods of destroying British shipping - parachuting magnetic and acoustic mines into busy harbours and their approaches. Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, was one of
The Stanegarth (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / Stoney_Stanton interesting placeThe Stanegarth was a steam-powered tugboat, built by Lytham Ship Builders Co in 1910 for Rea Transport Co Ltd of Liverpool. She later went into service with British Waterways, so throughout much of the century would have been engaged in
The Gwladmena (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / Scotland / Lerwick interesting placeOne of the busy collection points for convoys from March 1917 to the early months of 1918 was Lerwick in the Shetlands. However, it seems unlikely - because no records survive - that the Gwladmena of Liverpool was in the
MV Murree (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / Brixham interesting placeThe 11,940 ton Pakistani motor vessel, laden with general cargo and with her 150ft deck stacked high with three layers of containers, was on her way down the Channel from Tilbury to her home port of Karachi when she ran
The Longwy (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / Scotland / Stranraer shipwreckThe 2315 ton French steamer Longwy was one of the victims of a German UC-class mine-laying submarine engaged in setting a widespread field of mines across the approaches to Glasgow and the Clyde. The Longwy, bound for the Clyde from
The Somali (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / North_Sunderland interesting placeThe Heinkel 111 bombers slid out of cloud hanging over the Northumberland coast to score three direct hits on the hay-filled No 3 hold of the Somali. The result, on that afternoon of 25 March, 1941, was a ship on
The Port Napier (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / Scotland / Kyle_of_Lochalsh interesting placeTo describe HMS Port Napier as a floating bomb when she was tied up to the pier at Kyle of Lochalsh on 27 November, 1940 was almost an understatement. Just loaded into her six holds were 550 sea mines and
The Salsette (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / Bridport interesting placeThe 5,842-ton P&O express liner Salsette is justly acclaimed as one of the most fabulous shipwrecks in English waters and draws large numbers of divers to her. She lies in Lyme Bay, some 11.5 nautical miles west of Portland Bill
The UC-70 (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / Whitby wreckPilot Lieutenant Arthur Waring of 246 Squadron RAF hauled his new Blackburn Kangaroo bomber into the air at the end of the runway of Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool. His take-off was timed at 3pm on 28 August, 1918. The 920lb
The Mohegan (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / Falmouth interesting placeThey said that a mad helmsman had wrecked her, or that magnetic rocks had affected her compasses. But the truth is that early into the ship's first and last voyage under her new name of Mohegan, the course was set
The M2 (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / Chickerell shipwreck, submarineIn 1927 HMS M2 became the world's first undersea aircraft carrier - a submarine carrying a small two-seater seaplane in a watertight hangar, writes Kendall McDonald. The seaplane, which had folding wings, was launched by catapult off a runway on
The City Of Westminster (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / Saint_Just interesting placeWhen the City of Westminster ran into the Runnel Stone rock on 8 October, 1923, she hit it so hard that she knocked 6m off its top, writes Kendall McDonald. As a result, the Runnel Stone, which used to be
The Lucy (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / Wales / Milford_Haven interesting placeThe men who crew ships which carry calcium carbide are wise enough to abandon them when seawater starts to make contact with their cargo writes Kendall McDonald. Seawater plus carbide makes acetylene gas, which makes for exploding ships. So the
The Maine (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / Salcombe interesting placeA torpedo from UC-17 hit the Maine on the port side just in front of the bridge on the morning of 23 March 1917, writes Kendall McDonald. At the time she was 13 miles south of Devon's Berry Head, bound
The Moldavia (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / Littlehampton interesting place9505-ton P&O liner, built Greenock 1903. Commandeered by government as armed merchant cruiser 1915. 520ft x 58ft. 340hp triple-expansion engines. Armed: Eight 6in guns. Cargo: 900 US troops, Halifax, Nova Scotia, for London. Position: 50 23.13N; 00 28.72W. Depth: 45m.
The Cuba (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / Bembridge interesting place, invisible11,420-ton French liner, built Newcastle 1923, taken as war prize by Royal Navy, used as troopship. 476ft x 62ft. 10,300hp turbine engines. Cargo: 223 crew, 29 gunners, 10 Army staff and three signallers. Le Havre to Southampton. Position: 50 36.00N;
The Rotorua (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / Lyme_Regis interesting place11,140-ton New Zealand Shipping Company triple-screw three-deck liner, built 1910. 484ft x 62ft. Armed: 4.7in on stern. Cargo: 5600 tons general New Zealand goods, Wellington via Newport News for London, 238 passengers. Position: 50 18.47N; 02 59.73W. Depth: 55m. Sunk:
The Medina (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / Dartmouth interesting place12,358-ton British P & O liner, built 1911. Used as royal yacht for Delhi celebrations of coronation of King George V. 550ft x 63ft. Armed: 1914. 1164hp quadruple-expansion engines. Cargo: General, including copper ingots, India for London. Position: 50 12.42N;
The Duke of Buccleugh (Wreck)(en)United_Kingdom / England / Worthing interesting place3099-ton four-masted iron steamer, built 1874. 380ft x 38ft. 500hp engines. Cargo: 600 tons hand-painted Belgian china and glassware, 2533 tons of iron rails and machinery, Middlesbrough and Antwerp for Madras. Position: 50 29.50N; 00 26.03W. Depth: 58m. Sunk: 7
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