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Without the big camera, couldn't blur out the background. Still, this way, you get to read about the Good Housekeeping Award.
Helmet, gas mask, rifle, shoe pieces aboard the "Helmet Wreck" - an unidentified Japanese wreck from WW2.
This was a light blue 1958 Edsel ranger 2 door hardtop. It was broadsided near Salt Lake City, Utah back in 1973 and has been sitting in someone's back yard ever since. Hit so hard that the rear window shattered from impact
Caderno com desenhos de naufrágios feito sobre um catálogo com tÃtulo homônimo.
Caneta permanente sobre impresso, 21 x 29 cm, 2017
Beyer Patton photo
Another of the wrecked covered hoppers, PLCX 19177 took a hit to this end of the car in the crash.
Fairmont, MN
August 1979
Train of the Day
6/16/23
The story goes back in 1980 when a boat was trying to illegally smuggle cigarettes and alcohol in Greece. The Greek navy chased the boat through the Ionian sea and due to the stormy weather it ran aground on the coast to the north of the island where you can find it nowadays
In 1902 the dry dock was being towed from London, England to Durban, SA when it broke free during a storm and washed up along the Garden Route coast. It's pretty much only accessible during low tides, walking about 45 minutes from Glentana.
Highway 9 in California has many twists and turns as it rolls over the Santa Cruz Mountains. Like any stretch of road there will be unfortunate accidents, however the rugged terrain means that sometimes they just leave those accidents that went off the road there. I counted three cars on the Skyline to the Sea trail section that parallels Highway 9. This one looks like it has been there for decades.
The wheel wreck represents the remains of a mid 19th century sailing vessel. The site is characterised by a mound of cargo that consists of mining equipment, mainly pipes, rising mains and clack valves associated with pumping, sheave wheels, drive wheels and boiler tubes. The identity of the vessel is the subject of ongoing research.
© Crown copyright, photo taken by Wessex Archaeology
The Chikuzen Wreck lies 13 or so miles northwest of Virgin Gorda and is one of the best dives I have done. Huge schools of grunts and snapper cover the reef as well as dozens of huge amberjack and almaco jacks and perhaps hundreds of great barracuda.
Following the wreck in Grantville, KS, this work train came in with a load of pre-fab track and ballast.
Caderno com desenhos de naufrágios feito sobre um catálogo com tÃtulo homônimo.
Caneta permanente sobre impresso, 21 x 29 cm, 2017
Vieux Camion abandonné dans la Foret de pradines.
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Lens EF S 18-55 1:3,5-5,6 IS
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This is all that remains of the small fishing vessel David Blake was was wrecked here on 15 March 1934.
Car wreck at Pt Gawler.
Holden 2006 Barina Sedan ?
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One of the shipwreck located in Bagan Sekinchan, Selangor. Couldn't get any good moment for sunset due to cloudy weather. Used B+W ND110 for the long exposure.
The Disaster
On the evening of 25th October 1960 a number of barges were making their way up river from Avonmouth to Sharpness. Amongst them were two vessels operated by John Harker Ltd. of Knottingley, Yorkshire. The WASTDALE H had been built locally at Sharpness Shipyard in 1951. She was a tanker barge and was carrying a load of petroleum. The ARKENDALE H had been built by Richards Ironworks of Lowestoft in 1937 as a dumb (unpowered) tanker barge. She had been converted to a motor barge in 1948 and was later lengthened. Her cargo was Britoleum black oil, a heavy oil which required her to be fitted with heating coils in her tanks to keep the oil liquid.
The barges hit thick fog near Berkeley Power Station and the strong incoming tide was running at 5 knots making it difficult to manoeuvre the vessels for their approach to the lock at Sharpness. Both barges were swept past the lock entrance and the found themselves by the old, disused dock entrance further upstream. The two barges came abreast and the skippers found it impossible to separate them. Whilst they struggled to break them apart they drifted yet further upstream until the port bow of the WASTDALE H hit pier 17 of the bridge. The bridge shook with the impact and the WASTDALE H turned onto her port side and began to sink. As pier 17 gave way under the pressure the two spans it supported fell onto the barges causing the WASTDALE H’s petroleum cargo to ignite and explode. The ARKENDALE H’s cargo of black oil was also ruptured and with the help of the petroleum it too ignited leaving the entire expanse of the river blazing. The two barges drifted on up river before grounding on the Ridge Sandbank. Skipper George Thompson of the ARKENDALE H managed to make it ashore. His engineer Jack Cooper also survived but not before he received a severe back injury sustained by an encounter with the still-rotating propeller of the sinking ARKENDALE H. Skipper James Dew of the WASTDALE H was the only other survivor. The other five crew members were missing.
The next morning the smouldering wrecks of the two barges were left high and dry on the sand with the WASTDALE H standing on her port side. On the following tide she settled back to en even keel. Attempts were made to pump out and search both vessels for the missing crew members but their inaccessible position made the job difficult. All five bodies were later found at various locations along the Severn. On 30th October 1960 the Army blew holes in the bow and stern of both barges to prevent them refloating. They remain there to this day, submerged at high tide and exposed at low tide.
On the night of the disaster the Fairfields workers engaged on the strengthening of the bridge decided to take an early meal break in order to listen to the Henry Cooper v Karl Muller boxing match on the wireless at Severn Bridge Station. Had they not done so the death toll would have been considerably worse as the span they were working on was one of the two that fell.
Within a month of the disaster the Western Region of British Railways had prepared an outline plan to repair the bridge. Pier 16 would be repaired and a new concrete pier would be constructed to replace pier 17. A single, welded mild steel span would then be placed across the top, supported in the middle by the new pier. The projected cost for this was £85,000.
It was found that pier 16 was significantly damaged and was leaning towards the Sharpness bank. It was therefore decided to erect a timber trestle beneath span 15-16 and the contract to do this was awarded to Peter Lind & Co. Ltd.
The bridge suffered further mishap on 17th February 1961 when the tanker barge BP EXPLORER capsized and struck pier 20 causing a further £12,740 worth of damage.
Peter Lind & Co. Ltd. hired the twin floating crane TWEEDLEDUM & TWEEDLEDEE to assist with the erection of the trestle. On the 14th April 1961 the TWEEDLEDUM & TWEEDLEDEE broke away from its moorings on a flood tide and drifted into the bridge damaging the dolphins on pier 20. The crane jib also struck the underside of the bridge. This time the damage was estimated at £6,000."