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List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1948 Ship State Description USS Trippe United States Navy The decommissioned Benham-class destroyer was sunk as a gunnery target in the Pacific Ocean off Kwajalein after use as a target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.
Salt Island is part of the port of Holyhead and almost the whole extent of the island is used as a passenger, car and freight terminal and berths for ferries to and from Ireland. Both Irish Ferries and Stena Line sail from Salt Island to the Port of Dublin. The Holyhead lifeboat station is on the island.
Moonlight United States: The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the barquentine Elena ( Italy). Moonlight was on a voyage from Norfolk, Virginia to Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands. [39] Polly United Kingdom: The brigantine foundered 10 nautical miles (19 km) off Tory Island, County Donegal. Her crew survived.
Holyhead's cliffs are used for coasteering, a water sport which involves jumping off cliffs at different heights. Holyhead is the start and finish point of the Anglesey Coastal Path. [48] Holyhead was officially twinned with Greystones, County Wicklow on 20 January 2012, and this is celebrated on a new road sign. [49]
A well-preserved hut settlement on Anglesey was adjacent to the Holyhead Mountain hillfort. The Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles (Welsh: Tŷ Mawr / Cytiau'r Gwyddelod, Big house / "Irishmen's Huts") on Holy Island were inhabited before the Iron Ages, as of c. 1,000 BC. A stone wall built in the enclosure was found with limpet shells dating to 200 BC.
List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1879 Ship State Description Antelope United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk.She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland and West Hartlepool, County Durham to Livorno, Italy.
When the A5 road was being constructed between London and the Port of Holyhead, a more direct route was needed. Construction of the embankment started in 1822 and was completed a year later. [ 2 ] It is a total of 3 ⁄ 4 mile (1.2 km) long, [ 3 ] and is significantly wider at the base (35 metres (115 ft)) than at the top (10 m (33 ft)). [ 1 ]
Auxiliary patrol, mined off Holyhead 22 Jul 1940 HMT Canadian Prince: Sep 1939: Anti-submarine, French La Bonoise 1939, scrapped 1945 HMT Cap D'Antifer: 1940: Minesweeper, torpedoed by E-boat off the Humber 13 Feb 1944 HMT Cap Ferrat: 1940: Minesweeper, returned 1945 HMT Cape Argona: Aug 1939: Anti-submarine, sold 1945 HMT Cape Barracouta: Aug 1939