Recent additions to the Argyll section of the website include HMS Jason, SS Nessmore, SS Pelican, SS Milewater, SS Nydalen, SS Luneda, SS Limelight, MV Kartli and the puffer John Strachan along with new shipwreck views of the MV Mobeka and SS Byron Darnton. All these can be found in the Argyll section or by typing in wreck name in the search … [Read more...]
Photo album records Dalmuir ship breaking past
In November we were approached by the grandson of the former owner of the Glasgow ship breaking company of W. H. Arnott Young. Graced with the same name as his grandfather, W. Sloan Smith, he has unearthed an old company photo album which records some of the work undertaken by the company from the early 1940’s to the latter part of the 1950’s. … [Read more...]
New website feature goes live
We have added a new section to the website, and it's up and running. It goes by the highly original title of GALLERY which will allow us to store all our visual media in one area. So if you don’t want to read for a while, you can sit back and browse through a number of sections looking a different aspects of Scotland’s shipwrecks through … [Read more...]
Improved Scanning Capability
Recent software updates for our fish finder gizmo seem to have improved the quality of output for DownVision and SideVision imaging. Imaging collected in recent months has definitely shown improved quality and definition, in other words we are now seeing elements of man made structure where before it was somewhat fuzzy. We have shown images before … [Read more...]
Ayr Bay wrecks
A good forecast and the need to test an auxiliary outboard found us launching at Troon Marina last Sunday, to head out into Ayr Bay to dive the wreck of the motor coaster Glen Shiel, followed by the wreck of the cargo steamer SS Ahdeek off Troon. We headed south on flat calm seas with blue sky and sunshine, something we've not seen too … [Read more...]
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