Every wreck
has a story.
Explore the people, ships and events beneath Britain's waters. Search the records, choose a coastline and follow the historical evidence.
The wreck library.
Coastline photographs: Yorkshire · Scapa Flow (public-domain aerial photo map) · Humber · Thames · Cornwall. Images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons; attribution and reuse licences on linked file pages.
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YORKSHIRE RESEARCH NOTE: Entries draw on cited RNLI, Historic England and local historical resources. Shipwrecks of the Yorkshire Coast (Arthur Godfrey & Peter J. Lassey, 1974, ISBN 0852062273) is a further bibliographic reference; the complete book has not been supplied or transcribed. These are original summaries, not excerpts from the book.
Every record is a historical research entry. Some vessels were salvaged, raised, dispersed or lost without identifiable surviving remains. Illustrations are clearly labelled; no coordinates or dive navigation are supplied here.
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