Post your Shipwreck Photos

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Inspired by a recent post .

SS American Star


Post your shipwreck photos.

[Digga]

SS Great Britain plc

[Fezant Pluckah]

[oobster]

Just finished reading the history of the American Star on Wikipedia - quite a long career & a shame how she ended up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_American_Star

[FourWheelDrift]

RMS Queen Elizabeth, Hong Kong 1972.

Click below for larger image.

[FourWheelDrift]

SS Normandie, capsized in New York, 1942. Following fire and poor handling of the blaze.

[westtra]

deliberately sunk but still impressive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oriskany_(CV-34)

[PD9]

oobster said:

Just finished reading the history of the American Star on Wikipedia - quite a long career & a shame how she ended up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_American_Star

Was doing the exact same thing!

[FourWheelDrift]

Wreck of the SS Paris, bombed and capsized at Le Havre in 1944.

[Matt172]

westtra said:

deliberately sunk but still impressive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oriskany_(CV-34)

there was a discovery programme on recently about that, very impressive how they did it

[FourWheelDrift]

Imperial Chrysanthemum on the bow of the Yamato, Japanese Battleship, WWII.


Bismark's running mate Heavy Cruiser the Prinz Eugen, still above water at Kwajalein Atoll.


That thing across the harbour entrance causing the white water is the pre-Dreadnought Battleship HMS Hood (1891), sunk deliberately there in 1914 to stop German submarines from entering Portland harbour. It's still there.

[oobster]

Tricolor car carrier lying on it's side in the English channel. I wish there was a documentary on Discovery or similar on how they raised this wreck.

Edited to add: The MV Flare has always interested me. Broke in two off Canada, aft section stayed afloat for days afterwards.

http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/marine/1...

Edited by oobster on Tuesday 23 December 11:25

[Matt172]

SS Richard Mongomery in the Thames Estuary near the Isle of Sheppey, still has over 1500 tonnes of high explosive on board

[Batteryboy]

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[FourWheelDrift]

When HMS Audacious (almost brand new WWI Battleship) hit a mine off Loch Swilly in 1914 it began to sink, no lives were lost.

Lots of wreck photos here - http://www.deepimage.co.uk/wrecks/audacious/audaci...

Wreck info - http://www.skovheim.org/worldwide/uk-ireland/audac...

[GTO Scott]

Couple more of the American Star:

2003 (Taken by me)



2005 (Taken by Dad)

[Batteryboy]

Rosalie Muller Red Sea.

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