Dave. Kelly.
Shipwreck
A sunset over the remains of the Ionic Star, a memory in rusting metal of a time when she followed the trade routes across the equator and down to South America. She is one of the most complete wrecks visible from the Formby coast.
The ship was calling into Liverpool with a refrigerated cargo of meat, cotton and fruit when she ran aground in 1939. This error may have been in part due to the fact that all navigation lights were turned off due to the advent of the second world war making things considerably more difficult.
The Ionic Star was partly salvaged for scrap, after she went down on the edge of the infamous Mad Wharf sandbank in October 1939.
The remnants were then used as target practice by the RAF and what remains is brittle and melancholic, a memory of a former era clinging to the shifting sands.
Shipwreck
A sunset over the remains of the Ionic Star, a memory in rusting metal of a time when she followed the trade routes across the equator and down to South America. She is one of the most complete wrecks visible from the Formby coast.
The ship was calling into Liverpool with a refrigerated cargo of meat, cotton and fruit when she ran aground in 1939. This error may have been in part due to the fact that all navigation lights were turned off due to the advent of the second world war making things considerably more difficult.
The Ionic Star was partly salvaged for scrap, after she went down on the edge of the infamous Mad Wharf sandbank in October 1939.
The remnants were then used as target practice by the RAF and what remains is brittle and melancholic, a memory of a former era clinging to the shifting sands.