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The coast of the Devon Sea is known for its attractive and welcoming coastlines, but beyond its border lies a treacherous sea and beneath the surface a hidden history of shipwrecks.
If you had to disconnect the waters surrounding the county, locate lots of boats that once sailed their waves; in some places, they are the maximum from nose to tail, concentrated along the maximum harmful stretches of the sea. Skeletal structures, overturned cargo, rotting corpses, sunk, sunk and, in some cases, long forgotten, crowd the seabed or lie gently under mounds of sand.
For thousands of years, sailors have sailed around our coast and, in some cases, perished on their rocks. The number of shipwrecks is too much to be indexed in its entirety, but they all have a story to tell.
“Memory Lane,” lately a nostalgia feature with InYourArea, is presented as an independent element that provides others with a home for images that could have been hidden for years.
Here, DevonLive examines the maximum number of shipwrecks noticed off our coast.
HERZOGIN CÉCILIE
Herzogin Cecilie, a four-masted ship built in Germany named after the Crown Princess of Germany, sailed under the flags of Germany, France and Finland and sank into the well-known Bolt Head in southern Devon in 1936. Built in 1902, its multi-candle appearance changes seems to come from an earlier era. But the look is misleading and more than suitable for steamships of the time. In fact, it is one of the fastest windjammers ever built and once registered 21 knots. He arrived in Cornwall from South Australia. In record time he delivered a shipment of wheat and headed to Ipswich when he perished in dense fog. Trapped in Ham Stone Rock, he dropped off on the cliffs where his shipment rescued. On January 18, 1939, the ship overturned and sank near Salcombe. The remains of the shipment are now at an intensity of seven meters.
HMS MONTAGU
Probably the maximum shipwreck ever observed due to its protected status, the battleship ran aground in heavy fog off Lundy in 1906. It had conducted secret radio communication tests. A ship of great length and firepower, it was built to counter the fast Russian battleships of the time. But her time at sea was short. At 0200 hours on May 30, it ran aground at Shutter Rock, suffering a 91-foot (28-m) cut on its starboard side. A browser miscalculation has been blamed. What could be salvaged was removed, although the procedure took many years. The ship’s captain, Thomas Adair, and the navigational officer, Lieutenant James Dathan, were severely reprimanded in court martial. The wreck site, now equivalent to an armor plate on the seafloor, is a popular spot for snorkeling. In September 2019, the UK government granted coverage status to the wreckage site, adding steps that had been chiseled into the cliff in front of the rescue effort.
One of the most incredible shipwrecks of recent years is also one of the oldest in the world. Discovered off Salcombe in 2010, the un named shipment was discovered on the seabed about three hundred feet off the coast and is expected to have been there longer. Experts, the Bronze Age merchant ship sank into the English Channel while carrying an “extremely” shipment of tin and copper to the UK from continental Europe. The remains were made of wooden boards and were 40 feet long and 6 feet wide. It is understood that the ship, which was in a domain called Walsh Gully, was composed of a team of 15 men, all of whom would have had an oar.
THE BLESK
Russian steamer Blesk was one of the first to be specially designed for oil transport. He was also the first oil tanker to crash in the British Isles. At 298 feet long and loaded with 3,180 tons of oil, the Blesk resembled in some tactics on November 14, 1896 departed Odessa for Hamburg through the English Channel, Captain Adolph Deme, a confident but reckless man, continued at full speed. It came from the heavy rain convinced that it was about unfortunately, he crossed the Channel Island with the Eddystone lighthouse and finally hit Devon. His madness alerted the men on hope Cove’s lifeboat who, thanks to their courage, controlled to save everyone on board. The episode was an ecological crisis polluting the waters for many years.
DEVENTIA
On 12 February 1929, the Deventia brought refreshment from Fleetwood to London when it got stuck in a wind. It sank near Soar Mill Cove in South Devon. The Plymouth lifeboat came to the rescue in the howler seas and brought the sailors ashore. Russell Kelly later recalled pushing in smart weather before suddenly hitting a snowstorm. The boat does not value repair and is discarded at the site.
SS BRITTANY
The SS Brittany was built in 1903 in Christiania, Oslo and transported its coal shipment from Barry, Wales to Rouen, France as it traveled east in a thick fog off Teignmouth, colliding with French steamer Renee Marthe. he controlled the fishing boat to succeed in Brittany by cutting the team to the max and began towing it to disembark, but unfortunately this did not prevent it from sinking. returned aboard to collect cash from his cabin. Suddenly, the ship sank into the back of the sea and he and she with it.
It may not be much to look at, however, it is the idea that this shipwreck is more than two hundred years old and has been exposed at low tide on a popular Devon beach. Westward Ho! Beach in North Devon, although this isn’t the first time you’ve seen this specific shipwreck, it’s a rarity. The sinking is believed to be that of a Severn Trow, a merchant sent since the 19th century who would have operated in 2016, in statements to The Guardian, historic England maritime archaeologist Mark Dunkley said: “He was the workhorse of the local area, wearing everything from building fabrics to supplies. “There are other examples, but they tend to have been intentionally placed, they were already in very poor conditions, literally used for the river bank.
HMS AMATHYST
The HMS Amethyst was introduced in 1799. The majestic shipment helped the Navy to fight in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars opposed to the French. He had a very successful career, capturing more than 46 prize shipments between 1800 and 1809. But in 1811 the 36 gun frigate of the Royal Navy sank off Plymouth Sound. This happened when the captain disembarked. He told the team to retrieve one of the two anchors that were holding the shipment. Upon his return, he could not close the anchor for the time being. When the upper winds broke, HMS Amethyst was thrown ashore. The shipment’s cannons were fired as a sign of misery, and other people on the beach tied a rope between the shipment and the shore to allow some team members to escape, while others were rescued in boats. In the morning the shipment got stuck on the rocks and she had to remove her guns and outlets to lighten it. But all attempts to save the shipment failed. HMS Amethyst was not discovered on the ocean floor until July 2013, when the SHIPS mapping team conducted and followed up a geophysical survey of the domain.
Perrone
A French cable company heading to Le Havre. It is damaged in the middle of the ship and is located on the seabed. The Péronne was built in Sunderland in 1882 and was originally called CS Westmeath. He began his life by laying wires in the Americas and ended in 1917 at the wrong end of a German torpedo. Described through the Teign Diving Center as “an atmospheric shipwreck”, it is intact and popular with visitors.
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Galicia
At 18 m deep, Galicia was once a proud ocean liner who had the misfortune to collide twice with a wartime mine. Built in 1901 through Wigham Richardson
EVE OF ALL SAINTS
A tea mower from China, The Halloween, hit the coast just in the interior of Hamstone, on the edge of Soar Mill Cove, on the night of January 17, 1887. Another fast ship, it only took 69 days to succeed in Sydney, Australia On its last Foochow holiday to London, it was loaded with tea and hampered by bad weather. Pushed through marauding seas, she ran straight into the rocks. His team sent flares, but no one noticed. Three brave sailors who volunteered to take a line to shore was lost, but two others controlled to run ashore. A local farmer alerted the lifeboat that brought all 19 members ashore. Over the next few days, sending tea finally ran aground, and probably to everyone’s surprise, creating a 12-foot-tall tea barrier. Today, much is under the sand, the strange rusty dish sometimes floats.