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Charlestown Shipwreck and Heritage Centre. The Shipwreck Treasure Museum (previously the Charlestown Shipwreck & Heritage Centre) located in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Charlestown, Cornwall, England, is a historical museum housing over 8,000 artifacts from over 150 different shipwrecks.
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.
Charlestown (Cornish: Porth Meur, meaning great cove) is a village and port on the south coast of Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of St Austell Bay. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3 km) southeast of St Austell town centre. [1] The port at Charlestown developed in the late 18th century from the fishing village of West Polmear.
The wreck was located in 1981 and a selection of her cargo can be seen in the Charlestown Shipwreck, Rescue and Heritage Centre, Charlestown. [11] Also reported as Saint Andrew and sinking on 19 January 1526. [33] The site is designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973. [34]
Living in Charlestown for 31 years, [1] he was joint owner and curator of one of the largest collections of shipwreck artifacts on public display in Europe. [2] Larn and his wife Bridget then moved to the Isles of Scilly in 1986, [ 1 ] where they lived from 1986 to 1991 during which they set up and ran the Longstone Heritage Centre.
6 June – cargo ship SS Brisk ( Norway) torpedoed by U-82 ( Imperial German Navy) 13 miles NE of Trevose Head while en route from Cardiff to Rouen with coal. [147] 14 July – sailing ship Maria Jose ( Portugal) sunk by UB-65, commander: Martin Schelle ( Imperial German Navy) 20 miles north of Trevose Head. [148]
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Shortly thereafter, in 1800, the land for the Charlestown Navy Yard was purchased by the United States government and the yard itself was established. The yard built the first U.S. ship of the line , USS Independence in 1814, and at least twelve small vessels for the American Civil War , but was primarily a repair and storage facility until the ...