Scottish Shipwrecks

Information and Pictures of Shipwrecks in Scotland

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VINTAGE VIEWS

This section contains photographs of the wrecked vessels around the Scottish coast. The photographs, mainly in black and white and taken at the time of the vessel‘s loss, have been gathered through forty years of research and are mainly therefore out of copyright. If we have reproduced a copyrighted photograph in error without the necessary permissions we apologise and will immediately remove any that might infringe any current copyright restrictions. While the photographs record the vessel’s plight at the time of their loss and, as such, are a valuable historical record the decisions made about their possible recovery or scrapping on site were made by the salvage experts of the time and always were dependent on the prevailing weather conditions after the wrecking. In many cases the details of the wreck and it’s salvage, or not if that was the case, will be described in the detailed narrative section of the website and can be followed up there by searching for the vessel name in the search box at the top of our home page.

Agios Minas ashore Cill Cleit Islay September 1968
Akka ashore Gantock Rocks, Dunoon April1956
Alirmay ashore Portlethan September 1949
Apollo wrecked Trodday, Skye September 1971
Anna aground at St Combs December 1959
Albany ashore Machrinhanish, Kintyre December 1908
Tiree aground near Colintraive, Clyde
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Strathelliot sinking east of Fraserburgh April 2011
HMS Argyll stranded, Bell Rock October 1915
Archangel ashore Black Dog Rocks, Newburgh May 1941
HMS Barcombe ashore near Loch Buie, Mull January 1958
Ballyhalbert stranded near Ardrossan January 1958
Baron Glamis ashore on Laggan Rocks, Galloway January 1903
Barle ashore Mull of Oa, Islay April 1936
Sudero aground Sarclet Bay April 1903
Bathori ashore Larbrax Bay, Galloway December 1897
Belford ashore Poll-an-Dubhaidh, Islay February 1916
Bellavista ashore Papa Westray, Orkney July 1948
Ben Barvas ashore Little Pentland Skerry January 1964
Ben Namur ashore Bay of Skaill, Orkney October 1920
Bellona ashore at Strathlethan Bay near Gourdon October 1940
Benghazi aground at Fladda, Argyll April 1947
Hulk of Bermuda stranded at Drumbeg April 1933
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