Hi Rod, my great uncle Alexander Wood 1895-1933 was the Skipper of the Steam Trawler Venetia A560.

Haven’t got round to that one yet Rod… I have some details and a couple of photos of wreck ashore. We have been concentrating on wrecks with remains visible either above or below water now so far. One for the future. Thanks for your interest. Ian Crawford

Peter thanks for that. I have tried to contact you before but failed miserably. I have a photograph album with many of the wrecks lost on the West coast in the 40s. For example:- SS Rothesay Castle, SS Zitella, SS Rockpool, Submarine Job 9 (Kames Bay, raised), SS Byron Darnton, SS Aska,MV Alynbank, SS Resparko (strange one), SS Floristan, and of course the SS Politician. I have only given you a sample and am only about 10% off the way through the album. Perhaps you would be interested in seeing it? I need thoughts on what to do with it (at some point in the future).

Hi, the Hereford Express is included in the Kintyre section of our book Argyll Shipwrecks, unfortunately we have not managed to upload the story or pictures onto the website so far. Will make a note and add to the Argyll section of the website in the next month or so. The HExp became a total wreck and was later salvaged insitu. When researching Argyll Shipwrecks we searched along the south side of Boiler Reef and found a few sections of a modern welded construction vessel, most probably the HExp. Thanks for you interest.

Hi George, at present we are self funding as the costs are low at present. I have not looked at crowd funding but I could image the management of any money would need to be open book for all those donate etc. I doubt either of us will want to send time on accountancy stuff when we could be working away on wrecks. Thanks for the idea, will keep on back burner.

Should it not be on the list or was it refloated?