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Me in a sea kayak by the wreck of one of the 3 tugs that wrecked near Solva, west Wales on oct 28 1981, the Vernicos Giorgis was towing both the Vernicos Barbara IV and alexia when the towline fouled.
Link www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1390315
Pic. Gareth Davies
There are 3 ships at The Bulwer Wrecks that were scuttled on the beach at Bulwer, Moreton Island by Robert Alexander Gow deliberately for a sheltered area to load and unload his 12 m boat in the early 1930's. The main ship was the Kallatina, a steel steamer of 628 tons which was built at Glasgow in 1890 and bought from the State Government by John Burke Ltd. It was scuttled in 1931. The Hopewell was scuttled in 1930, which is the ship on the right when looking at the ocean. At the back running parallel to the beach is the 716 ton Mt Kembla also scuttled in 1930, it was 180 ft long and built in England in 1885 for Mt Kembla Coal and Oil Company.
They were all scuttled to form a breakwater at Bulwer, Moreton Bay, Queensland, although now the wrecks are rusting away and it is a lot shallower between the wrecks, making it an ideal swimming and snorkelling spot.
While recently in Christchurch I again had the opportunity to walk around check out the earthquake damage that still remains.
This is what remains of a cinema, the wall where the movies used to be projected is no longer there.
...found this wreck on the rocky shoreline at the far (south) end of Willows Beach. The ship wreck is a 12.9 Metre Fishing Boat, the Gulvik, built in 1929.
Shipwreck Society
The Wreck of The Gulvik
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(excerpt from above)
The Gulvik was owned at the time by a seventy-nine year old man named Fritz, or Fred. Despite his age he has a son of twelve who attends a catholic school in Victoria and lives with his mother, Fritz’s ex-wife, a Cuban woman who works at Wal-Mart and lives in social housing in Glanford area. It was at this townhouse complex on January sixth that I met Fritz. His son’s mother was back in Cuba, visiting, so Fritz senior was playing the single father routine and caring for Fritz junior.
Fritz’s story is an interesting one. “Everything fell apart in 1948 in Germany,” he began, and proceeded to recount his flight from an overcrowded family living in post-war destitution to Canada and riches and losses and of cobblers shops and farm-land, feuds with sons and disastrous divorces. He told me about building a plywood sailboat, a cruising boat, he built it on his farm in Alberta and trucked it to the sea. He showed me photographs in an album, he pointed to pictures of beautiful women squinting in the tropical sunlight, posing on his boat. He told me about the birth of his son, at a hospital in Jamaica that didn’t cost much, had the appearance of a social club, women gossiping on the verandah. There were some photos of his last wife, the boys mother, far younger than Fritz and perhaps more focused on the destination than the journey.
The Gulvik was also seventy nine years old. While still a serviceable vessel it was at the end of its career. It had a long fishing career catching hundred of thousands of pounds of salmon along the west coast of British Columbia and had been converted to recreational use by previous owners, some of whom I have met on the beach. Fritz had bought the boat several months ago with the intention of moving aboard. He was frustrated by the high cost of rent at the apartment building he lived in and had actually moved out just before the boat broke free. He told me that before the boat was wrecked he was all set, his will was written, his funeral payed for, and the boat would be home for the last years of his life. He had some work done to the boat, installing all the comforts of home and was looking forward to living afloat again, to get away from the neighbors and the high cost of city life.
This wreck on Seaton Carew's shoreline shows that, aside from the beach huts and pleasure boats, the sea could be a dangerous place. With only its skeleton remaining, this particular ship appears to have been stuck on the beach a while. Did you know that the wreck of an unknown ship is still visible on the shoreline of Seaton beach?
Photograph Collection Number 651
Drunk drivers tend to have trouble with highway curves.
Dixon, Mississippi
May 25th, 1986
Pentax ME Super
Sets next to the yellow sign and entrance to the Angel's Ladies brothel near Beatty, Nevada.
To find out the interesting story behind the airplane wreck go here: www.ourecho.com/story-269-Fran-s-Brothel-Short-Prose-.shtml
Volkswagen Beetle wrecks
The camper van roof is now all that remains of a completely stripped bus. It was surprisingly rust free. So parts of it at least will have made it back on the road. I first saw this bus on a Sunday afternoon last May. By mid July all that was left was the camper roof section which has since moved about 3 yards and is left leaning on a stripped out late model Beetle.
The wrecking ball takes down the old Horizon Milling grain elevator at NE Crane & Jefferson Streets in Topeka.
Train Wreck of Bostian Bridge, Iredell County, NC. Wreck occured August 27, 1891, near Statesville.
Photos by Stimson Studio, Statesville, NC