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''Treat This'' 292 ~ Kreative People group
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Le Merchant Mariners Memorial, promenade du Front-de-mer, port de Sydney, île du Cap Breton, Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada.
Inauguré en mai 2016, ce monument est dédié à la mémoire du courageux civils membres de la marine marchande qui ont servi le Canada en haute mer pendant les deux guerres mondiales. Ces marins risquaient leur vie chaque fois qu'ils montaient à bord d'un navire de ravitaillement et se dirigeaient à travers les eaux infestées par les sous-marins de l'Atlantique. Ces navires marchands étaient systématiquement visés et souvent coulés par des sous-marins allemands.
Relativement petite bien que 3e ville de Nouvelle-Écosse, Sydney est une ville fière de son passé dans l’exploitation des mines de charbon et la fabrication de l’acier. Ces maisons anciennes constituent un bel attrait. Comme pour beaucoup de communautés néo-écossaises sur l'océan, le cœur de Sydney est son front de mer. Sur une chaude soirée d'été c'est un endroit idéal pour faire une promenade et regarder les navires dans le port.
Solheimasandur plane wreck in 1973 at south Iceland.
The Douglas R4D-8 US Navy transport plane had delivered supplies at Hofn Hornafjördur Airport for the radar-station in Stokksnes, Iceland. En route the airplane encountered severe icing. The crew were not able to maintain altitude. A forced landing was carried out on an ice covered river on near coast of Iceland. The ice broke but the airplane did not sink.
The remains of the plane were abandoned and the main fuselage as still there since 1973.
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Wreck of the SS Nornen, Berrow, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset
This old wreck has been on my mind to shoot for about 2 years but as it's a bit of a drive and you need the weather, tides and sunset to align plus have the time in the schedule to shoot it I haven't before now. On the August Bank Holiday weekend I was free and had reason to be heading that way so I decided to make an afternoon/evening out of it and try to get something.
The SS Nornen was a Norwegian Barque sailing ship. It had 3 masts and was built in France in 1876.
On 1 Feb 1897 it set sail from Bristol bound for Brunswick in Georgia, USA. Having loaded a cargo of resin and turpentine, the Nornen set sail back to Bristol. During the night of 2/3 March, a major storm battered the coasts of south west England. Captain Olsen made an attempt to shelter in the lee of Lundy Island, but this was in vain. With sails torn, the crew were powerless against the rough swells and driving sleet. The Nornen drifted north-westward, eventually running aground on Berrow Beach, Berrow, Somerset.
The captain risked his life by jumping overboard, into the muddy, icy cold waters of the Severn Estuary. None of the other crewmen nor the ship's dog followed. At 11:30 on 3 March, the RNLI lifeboat "Godfrey Morris"[ reached the stricken vessel, which was standing upright on Gore Sands. All crew* and the ship's dog were rescued and taken to safety.
Salvage began almost immediately, with the insurers logging her as 'sold as a wreck' on 2 April 1897. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nornen
I did find shooting this wreck a challenge as I wanted to go low to the sand but if I did that it was impossible to isolate the two rows of timbers from each other. I was there for a few hours with one other Tog appearing during Golden Hour and several beach walkers visited as well. Luckily although there were a number of heavy rain showers skirting the site (you can see one to the left of the frame) I stayed dry the whole time. This shot is is a series of 5 bracketed images taken shortly before the sun was lost behind that bank of clouds. I'd hoped the shadows you can see would appear as I thought they could be used in the shot.
It's pretty flat there and I know the Bristol channel has a massive tidal range so you need to be careful there but I've seen some shots with more of the sand missing and water sitting between the timbers which can make for a cracking image. A place I hope to return to.
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Corpach wreck - A rising high tide on Loch Linnhe with the late afternoon light picking out the colours of the Corpach wreck under a dynamic sky.
Formerly the MV Dayspring, she now sits abandoned high (and normally dry) on Loch Linnhe resting where she ran aground on the shingle beach during a storm in December 2011. A magnet for us photographers and a must visit location when up on the West Coast of Scotland to see what conditions will present themselves when in the presence of this charismatic old wreck.
Corpach, Highland Scotland
Repainted IC SD40-3 6263 leads ore loads South at Sax, MN. The 6263 has a unusual cab window on this side due to a repair from wreck damage.
Wreck of the SS Nornen, Berrow, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, UK
I really can't get used to the new layout on here!👎
Sorry for absence and lack of replies/comments - will try and do better in next week as have a few days off and hoping to have a bit of dry weather for some shooting in east Sussex/Kent.
This shot was taken a little earlier than the last one from a more head-on angle to the wreck of the SS Nornen.
I know to some it will seem quite similar to the last shot and I can understand that. In this one though I liked that the sun was not in the shot to draw the eye, the refinery is visible in the background and just a hint of a rainbow there too that I didn't notice at the time.
For me the clouds that I got that afternoon/evening were the highlight to this old wreck.
I won't be posting whilst I'm away but will try to catch up on acknowledging comments and commenting. How those on several Social Media sites keep up I'll never know!
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.
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10 years ago
This is a shot of the Maheno wreck on Fraser Island Australia, which I've taken 10 years ago on my Down Under trip.
Don't blame me about picture quality! At this time, I owned only a simple point and shoot camera and it was the beginning of my passion to photography.
This is a ship wreck near Cape Agulhas, the most southern point of Africa. I am not sure if this scene still exists because the position of the ship changes a lot over the years due to the waves and weather. The ship was named "Meisho Maru No.38" and it was a Japanese fishing trawler. It ran aground in 1982.
St. Margaret’s Hope
Two wrecks behind the ferry terminal in the village of St. Margaret’s Hope. Looks as though they were once part of the fishing fleet, which having reached the end of their lives have been abandoned to be replaced by new vessels.
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Ship wreck at Roa Island without a visible name.The Vita Nova Z588 was built in 1967 and was a Belgian Trawler. She later spent some time in Ireland and then was decommissioned and ended up in Millom, Cumbria . She was sold as scrap to a family who converted her to a houseboat and was anchored just off the causeway between Rampside and Roa Island. The family lived on her until the really high tides at the end of 2014/early 2015 washed her ashore.
Pan Am Railways GP40 (high hood) 380 leads the combined wreck train past MP-100 at Burnham Jct, ME on 3/21/2020. The train was on the return trip from Northern Maine Junction after cleaning up several loaded LPG tank cars which derailed and rolled down an embankment in Etna, ME a week or two prior. The 380 was having a hard time on this day, which required a running start to make many of the hills. At the end of the train, SD40M-2 3405 was isolated. As for the 380, it was reactivated to handle detour traffic, as a result of the CN rail blockades in February of 2020. However, this would prove to be the last stand for the Pan Am high hoods. Upon reaching Waterville, the 380 was cutoff the train and had the water drained after being taken into the shop complex. The 380 would be cut up by LTEX crews at Waterville before the end of the year (despite a few interested parties) ending the high hood era on Pan Am.
Pan Am Railways
Train: Wreck Extra 380 West
Burnham Jct, ME
3/21/2020
Pan Am Railways, District 1