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Ship abandonment can occur for a variety of reasons and cannot be defined in a single way. [1] Most cases are of ships abandoned by owners because of economic hardship or economic issues, [ 1 ] for example because it becomes less expensive than continuing to operate, paying debts, port fees, crew wages, etc.
21 July – the crew of the ketch Tilly ( United Kingdom) abandoned ship when she took on water 20 miles north of Trevose Head. [20] 31 July – the French ship Socoa was stranded off Kildonan Point, Lizard in dense fog, she was re-floated after jettisoning 50000 barrels of cement and beached in Cadgwith Cove. She was later towed round to ...
The Purton Hulks or Purton Ships' Graveyard [1] is a number of abandoned boats and ships, deliberately beached beside the River Severn near Purton in Gloucestershire, England, to reinforce the river banks. Most were beached in the 1950s and are now in a state of considerable decay. The site forms the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain. [2]
23 January – an unidentified troop ship, possibly one of Admiral Christian's West Indies convoy was wrecked within a cable length of Loe Bar during a ″great storm″ in Mount's Bay. The ship was carrying between 400 and 600 officers and men of the 26th Regiment of Dragoons ; not one of the crew or passengers survived.
UK to decommission ships, drones and helicopters to save £500m. ... The UK will speed up the decommissioning of old military equipment to save up to £500m over five years, the government says. ...
A fifth-rate ship that exploded while undergoing repairs at Plymouth. Cattewater Wreck: Unknown 16th century (probable) Wooden ship, first to be protected under Protection of Wrecks Act 1973: HMT Elk Royal Navy: 27 November 1940
The Bristol Channel. A number of ships have run aground or sunk in the Bristol Channel, [1] a stretch of water between southern Wales, Devon and Somerset. Cardiff, Barry and Penarth were once the largest coal exporters in the world and the channel received significant traffic at the beginning of the twentieth century during exportation.
The owners of the ships vary from individuals to inheritors to companies registered in countries ranging from Greece to Britain and Honduras. Greece hauls abandoned, half-sunken ships out of the ...