LATEST INFORMATION ABOUT SHIPWRECKS IN THE SEAS SURROUNDING BRITAIN AND IRELANDShipwrecks UK News Items - 2. December 2. 01. 1The HEATHER ANNE - sank in Gerrans Bay on the evening of 2. December 2. 01. 1The never- ceasing losses continue: in winds of about force 8 and rough sea conditions, the Mevagissey fishing vessel HEATHER ANNE (FY1. Gerran's Bay, about 4 miles to the east of Falmouth. 10 Astonishing Shipwreck Treasures Hestie Barnard Gerber June 22, 2013 According to UNESCO, there are as many as three million shipwrecks scattered across the world’s seabed. Her two crew were recovered by a sister vessel, the LAUREN KATE (FY8. A helicopter from RNAS Culdrose took one of the men to Treliske Hospital, Truro where he later died. The other crew member was taken to Mevagissey by one of the two lifeboats from Falmouth that attended the scene but he did not require hospital admission. The HEATHER ANNE was built 4. AQUARIUS OF CAWSAND at the respected yard of G Percy Mitchell and Sons in Portmellon, near Mevagissey. Her construction was that of a traditional wooden crabber. He tied it to his body, high and dry, for safekeeping but he didn't realize he was shutting it off by removing it from the water. The wreck of a fishing boat found on high ground. Exercise caution with these types of wrecks. Fixed 'Boat of Doom' prefab ID replacing a new shipwreck's ID. 0.03 Mar 21, 2015 Fixed shipwreck door collisions. 0.02 Feb 14, 2015 Fixed 'Boat of Doom 0.01.H1. The HEATHER ANNE and LAUREN KATE were both ring netting for Cornish sardines when the tragedy occurred. Shipwrecks UK News Items - 9 December 2. The FLORECE - sank without loss of life on 9th December 2.
Bay of Biscay. During a period of extremely strong winds and correspondingly rough seas, at a time when daylight is minimal, the risks faced by mariners have clearly been great. Hurricane force 1. UK Meteorological Office Shipping Forecasts of 8th December. Falmouth Coastguard contributed to a successful international effort to save the crew of the Dominica- registered, Ireland- managed cargo vessel FLORECE. The FLORECE sank after a collision with the AFRODITE at about 0. GMT, Friday 9th December 2. Russian, Polish and Ukrainian crew took to liferafts and were safely recovered by the OCEAN TITAN. The collision took place in the western Bay of Biscay, about 1. SW of Brest, within the UK's Aeronautical Search and Rescue Region. The Press Office of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has issued a bulletin. Shipwrecks UK News Items - November 2. The SWANLAND - sank with loss of life on 2. November 2. 01. 1, in the Irish Sea, NW of Bardsey Island. Another gale arrived with an Atlantic depression on 2. November and continued overnight. North- westerly force 8 winds (and storm force and above further north) created very rough sea conditions, which resulted in tragedy for some of the crew of a nearly 2,0. Irish Sea. The 3. SWANLAND with a Russian crew of 8 succumbed to the stresses and appears to have broken her back. She had a cargo of limestone near her deadweight tonnage of 3,1. Holyhead Coastguard’s radar. The former aircraft , captain Flt Lt Thomas 'Sticky' Bunn and co- piloted by Flt Lt William Wales (Prince William, Duke of Cambridge), located survivors at about 4am after a pattern search and winched two of the SWANLAND’s crew (including the second officer) from an inflatable liferaft in the Irish Sea about 1. Bardsey Island and about 2. Holyhead The two survivors, Roman Savin and Vitaly Kornenko, gave details of the contact with a particularly large wave that resulted in cracking of the hull and a rapid influx of water. The crew abandoned ship soon after and the bulk carrier sank rapidly. Savin and Kornenko were taken to Bangor Hospital but needed no treatment. The search work was supplemented by search and rescue helicopters, including those from the Irish coastguard at Dublin, Waterford and Sligo, from RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall, from RAF Chivenor in North Devon, and an Irish Air Corps aircraft from Casement military airbase SW of Dublin. RNLI lifeboats from Porthdinllaen, Pwllheli, and Abersoch on the Lleyn (Llyn) peninsula and from Trearddur Bay and Holyhead on Anglesey responded and the Irish Navy offshore patrol vessel LE ROISIN also proceeded to the search area. A third crew member, Leonid Safonov, was later recovered from the sea by the Rescue- 1. Sikorsky from Waterford but he could not be resuscitated. A second empty liferaft was later found near Bardsey Island. A further five crew were still missing as darkness fell again in the early evening of 2. November and the search was suspended between 1. Sunday and 0. 73. Monday. Rescue efforts were hampered by the darkness of the night, the gale and very rough seas. Wind conditions abated somewhat during the search efforts but were expected to pick up again. At least five of the crew were thought to be wearing immersion suits, with strobe signal lighting. At the time of the hull failure some of the crew had been working or sleeping inside, including some below deck. Let us hope that more members of the crew can be saved; if they have not gone down with their ship then - for those in immersion suits at least - some slim hope may still remain. It is believed that water had begun to flood into the vessel as a result of a flange malfunction; the pumps were unable to cope with the ingress, and she issued a Mayday call at 0. The Ullapool fishing vessel OUR HAZEL responded in less than 1. AINMIRE sank, when she took the crew to Ullapool. Stornoway Coastguard’s Rescue 1. Sikorsky s. 92 and the Stornoway Severn lifeboat `Tom Sanderson` also responded. The benign weather and sea conditions (SW 3- 4, sea state good) and the response of OUR HAZEL and the rescue services ensured the safety of the crew of 5: in the exposed seas north and west of Lewis, where the AINMIRE normally lays her pots near the edge of the continental shelf, the situation can often be much more serious. The crew were wearing survival suits and lifejackets and were all unhurt. An 1. 8. 3m, 1. 27 ton steel vessel, the AINMIRE (D5. Den Helder (Netherlands) shipyard of Scheepswerf Visser in March 1. She was owned and skippered by Ross Classon of Portnoo, Donegal. In the winter of 2. Adam Nicolson spent time with Ross Classon and his Latvian crew on the AINMIRE and wrote an evocative article - describing operations in seas that were definitely not benign - for The Daily Telegraph (published in his article of 3. January 2. 00. 4). Shipwrecks UK News Items - Re- cap on winter 2. The KERLOCH - sank without loss of life in February 2. The lives of all four crewmen of the vivier potter KERLOCH (J2. Crow Rock, off Pembrokeshire's Linney Head in the early evening darkness of 2. February 2. 01. 0. They were en route from Lundy to Milford Haven at the time and took to their liferaft as the 1. DOLLY ANNE Neyland fishing vessel which had seen their distress flares and called the Coastguard. The weather and sea state at the time presented no problems, with a SW 1. The new lifeboat based at Angle (the Tamar class Edward and Barbara Prigmore) had its first operational call- out, taking the crew from the DOLLY ANNE to Milford Haven for onward transportation to hospital in Haverfordwest as a precaution; they were uninjured and not suffering from hypothermia. This photo of the vivier- potters KERLOCH (to the right) and INCONNU nearing completion in 1. Camaret shipyard of Chantiers Albert Peron was kindly provided by Philippe Moudenner, whose uncle was the first owner of the INCONNU. Both vessels were later sold to British owners and were registered in Jersey when lost; both have sadly been wrecked in the Shipwrecks UK area. The INCONNU was lost on the 1. January 1. 99. 6 when fire, leading to explosions, caused the vessel to drift into rocks on the west of Hoy, in the Orkneys. Tragically, the skipper - Paul Simpson - was killed as a result of the fire. The ETOILE DES ONDES - sunk with the loss of crewman Chris Wadsworth, 2. December 2. 00. 9The 4. Teignmouth crabber ETOILE DES ONDES (WH6. Malaysian Bulk Carriers' ALAM PINTAR. The 4. 7,0. 00grt (8. Singapore to Hamburg when the ETOILE DES ONDES was run down in the English Channel about 2. Cherbourg. The ALAM PINTAR appeared to be unaware of the collision, which happened at about 8. December 2. 00. 9, but a spokesman for the owners later confirmed the vessel's involvement. The photograph, left, of the ETOILE DES ONDES was taken in September 2. John Eaton who kindly agreed its inclusion. A 2. 1 year old member of the crew, Mr Chris Wadsworth, remained missing after a wide- range search was called off at 4. The skipper and other two crew members took to their liferaft, from which they were picked up by the Norman Voyager, which had seen their distress flares and notified the French CROSS (Centre Regional Operationnel de Suveillance) HQ at Jobourg, near Cherbourg. The search included at least two helicopters and an aircraft, in addition to four commercial vessels. The skipper had to escape underwater from the cabin. The sea temperature was 9. One of the French coastguard helicopters took the crew from the Norman Voyager to hospital in Cherbourg where they were immediately treated for hypothermia. Registered in Weymouth, the wood- hulled ETOILE DES ONDES (French for `Star of the Waves`) was built at the Rolland Shipyard in 1. She was owned by the Simmonds brothers of Teignmouth, where all members of the crew were living. She had been spotted by a 4- engined Focke- Wulf Condor in the morning of the previous day. Working in concert with u- boats and heavy cruisers, this long- range aircraft was instrumental in inflicting heavy losses on convoys such as SL- 6. It was this convoy, en route from Freetown (Sierra Leone), from which the GAIRSOPPA became detached, needing to replenish her bunkers at Galway and left without the protection of convoy escorts. Three lifeboats were believed to have got away from the sinking ship after she was hit by a torpedo and burned fiercely, but only one of these delivered a survivor to safety – and he was the sole survivor from the GAIRSOPPA: the master, 8. Indian Merchant Navy) and two DEMS gunners were lost. In one of the more harrowing tales of life and death at sea, this lifeboat came ashore at Caerthillian Cove, just south of Kynance Cove and close to the tip of the Lizard (Cornwall) on 1st March, with only 3 Europeans and 2 Indians alive from the more than 3. February. Of these, only 2nd Officer Richard Ayres survived the final capsize in the surf of the cove, after the rudderless open lifeboat had travelled eastwards more than 3.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
December 2016
Categories |