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.

Avondale Park sinking in Forth May 1945
Bullger aground Anstruther harbour entrance January 1934
HMS Campania sinking in Forth November 1918
HMS Campania sinking in Forth November 1918
HMS Campania sinking in Forth November 1918
HMS Sussex-September 1940 Yorkhill
Jacob George Eyemouth harbour entrance February 1936
Jane Ross ashore Kilminning Sands Crail September 1934
Switha, Forth dispersed by explosives 1980
Porthcawl salvage in progress Incholm February 1926
Malabar ashore Barns Ness Dunbar April 1920
Mars wrecked May Island, Forth May 1936
Thomas L Devlin May Island, Forth December 1959
Switha on Herwit Rocks, Forth. Stranded January 1980
Evelyn Rose aground Sound of Islay November 1949
Floristan wrecked Kilchiaran Bay January 1942
Craik aground Sound of Islay November 1932
Floristan wrecked Kilchiaran Bay, Islay January 1942
Verbormilia ashore off Fast Castle, Dunbar February 1940
Floristan wrecked Kilchiaran Bay, Islay January 1942
Floristan wrecked Kilchiaran Bay, Islay January 1942
Jacksonville on fire after attack August 1944
Limelight aground Sgeir Thraghaidh, Islay October-1966
Jacksonville stern section after fire August 1944
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