Wreck Hunting

Over the years we have been working hard to find lost ship wrecks. Most have been found, especially around Falmouth Bay. After a lot of work and some luck, we found our first lost wreck. Once we had found the wreck, we had to identify it. There was little left, apart from the cargo. After a lot of help from English Heritage we had two possible names, A or B. The main difference was the type of cargo, this narrowed it down to just one possibility, wreck A. It was definitely granite cargo and not ballast.

This left us with another wreck to find, wreck B. After some searching, we thought we had found it, due to finding granite stone ballast on a different site. After more research we realised that this new site wasn't wreck B as we thought it was, it did point us in the direction of wreck B. So now we have a wreck C to identify and wreck B to find. From our research, wreck B's cargo was stone ballast, as was wreck C. The location of wreck B was found on a coroners report, close to shore, nowhere near wreck C. The report was very descriptive and made the site obvious, we even had the direction the ship was heading when it came ashore.

At this moment in time, we are waiting to correctly identify wreck C's cargo and wreck B's exact location. Just waiting for the right weather.

On an attempt to have a look for wreck B, the weather stopped us, so we decided on diving an area as close to the site as possible. During this dive we found some Pig Iron blocks, possibly keel weights from a fishing vessel. We now need to re-visit this area to see if there is any more of it left. So now a wreck D to investigate!

During our physical searches we use a Starfish Side Scan sonar, Lowrance HDS10 with LSS and an MX500 magnetometer. Records searching is a bit labourious, using English Heritage certainly takes a chunk of that away from us. They do like feedback and any information we uncover in return,