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A 1,028 GRT merchant vessel sank in heavy seas 6.6 nautical miles (12.2 km) SW from the Isle of Wight. HMS Scout Royal Navy: 25 March 1801 A French corvette captured by the British and renamed Scout. She was wrecked off The Needles. HMS Swordfish Royal Navy: 7 November 1940
The Isle of Wight Festival was a very large rock festival that took place near Afton Down, West Wight in 1970, following two smaller concerts in 1968 and 1969. The 1970 show was notable both as one of the last public performances by Jimi Hendrix and for the number of attendees, reaching by some estimates 600,000. [ 56 ]
Atherfield Ledge is a rocky outcrop extending from the coast of the Back of the Wight, Isle of Wight. This is a famous shipwreck location. This is a famous shipwreck location. Along with Brook Ledge and Brighstone Ledge it is one of the area's main shipping hazards.
Discovering an Island – The roadside heritage of the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight Society/Island Books. ISBN 1-898198-12-8. Medland, J (2007). The Making of the Wight - An illustrated history of the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight Beacon Ltd. ISBN 978-1-904149-14-9. G. Momber, J. Satchell & J. Gillespie (2011). "Bouldnor Cliff".
The remains of a late sixteenth or early seventeenth century carrack was discovered in Yarmouth Roads, Isle of Wight, England in 1984. The site was designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act on 9 April 1984. The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed by Historic England.
The Needles – From the Beautiful Britain series, The Isle of Wight, by G. E. Mitton The batteries are accessible by car, foot, bicycle, and bus. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Though there is a paved road up to The Old and The New batteries, access is on foot, from a car park. [ 12 ]
Wheelers Bay took its name from a notorious Isle of Wight family "the Wheeler's" known for their involvement in smuggling on the isle. In the 1800s Robert Wheeler had logged 70 wrecks, His father James wheeler was said to saved three souls from the sea when he entered the water tied only to a rope and carried the remaining survivors ashore.
Irex was a sailing vessel wrecked at Scratchell's Bay on the Isle of Wight by The Needles on 25 January 1890, while on her maiden voyage. [1] Ship history