Shipwrecks UK - Sitemap - Comprehensive Shipwreck Information

• Prefessional research service using our unrivalled resource - requiring a contribution to the work of Shipwrecks UK
• Expansion and improvements well beyond the 6-volume Lloyds Register Shipwreck Index which forms the original core, and dating from time immemorial: now accessing - and interactively mapping - details for more than 46,000 shipwrecks in the seas surrounding Britain and Ireland.
• Dynamic mapping of users’ search criteria
• Selection Criteria
• Colour-coded density mapping
• Thematic analysis and 'drill down'
• Zoom-in mechanisms
• Details
• Sea areas covered

• Shipwrecks UK availability - remains available only in conjunction with our unrivalled research resources.
• Cost aspirations
• Community resource
• Users
• Updating
• Demonstrations and Presentations
• Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre
• Curator and Archivist of the Museum of London, Docklands, October 2008
• Diving and Manned Submersibles Committee of the Society for Underwater Technology, chaired by Dr John Bevan, June 2008
• Britannia Naval Research Association, April 2008
• International Shipwreck Conference, February 2008
• University of Oxford International Programmes, November 2007
• Oxford Archaeology, November 2007
• October 2007 Tercentenary Commemorations for loss of the HMS Association fleet
• National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, January 2006 (to Dr Margarette Lincoln (Director, Collections and Research) and Aileen O'Riordan (Head of Online Projects)
• Steve Weinman Editor of Diver Magazine (see his March 2006 Editorial)
• Shipwreck Conference, Plymouth, February 2006
• Wessex Archaeology in Old Sarum, February 2006
• PADI International in Bristol, February 2006
• National Monuments Record in Swindon, February 2006
• Nautical Archaeology Society Conference, Portsmouth, November 2005


• System requirements (if and when the resource is made available online)

• Dava Sobel, best-selling author of "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" - 22nd October 2007
  
• Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS, 14th Astronomer Royal - 22nd October 2007
  
• Nick Chipchase, Trimix diver and steamship researcher. 6th February 2008
  
• Suzanne Pleydell - Group Manager, Education & Instructor Development, PADI International Ltd, and member of the UK Government's Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites
  
• Robert Dunne, Dublin (genealogical interest)
  
• Christopher Dobbs, Maritime Archaeologist, Mary Rose Trust
  
• Sophia Exelby, Receiver of Wreck
  
• Mike Williams, Senior Law Lecturer, Wolverhampton University. Member of the Nautical Archaeological Society Executive and the Joint Nautical Archaeological Society
  
• Innes McCartney, Shipwreck historian, broadcaster, author, pioneer Trimix diver, licensee of Historic Wreck, member of NAS
  
• Peter Holt, Project Surveyor for the Mary Rose Trust, 3H Survey Consulting Ltd, Systems Designer for Sonardyne International Ltd
  

• Alan Jones
• Richard and Bridget Larn
  • Authors of the original Lloyds Register Shipwreck Index of the British Isles and Ireland volumes in addition to many other books on shipwrecks and maritime topics. The Shipwrecks UK resource incorporates all this data.

• The AINMIRE (2010, 24mls WNW of the Butt of Lewis)
• The KERLOCH (2010, Linney Head) and INCONNU (1996, Hoy)
• The ETOILE DES ONDES - sunk by the ALAM PINTAR north of Cherbourg (2009)
• The SS GAIRSOPPA - sunk off Ireland in 1941 and now to be salvaged?
• Overturned Scallop Dredger AQUILA (2009)
• Beached giant dredger GOLIATH (2009)
• Major cargo loss from the SINEGORSK (2009)
• Heysham sinking of the dredger ABIGAIL H (2008)
• Foundering of the SHAUN SHAUN (2008)
• Foundering of the FAITHFUL FRIEND II (2008)
• Capsize of the ALEYNA (2008)
• Temporary stranding of the QE2 liner (2008)
• Capsize of the GUYONA (2008)
• Capsize of the LEVAN MOR (2008)
• Foundering of the Newlyn-registered fishing vessel GIRL PATRICIA (2008)
• Grounding of the British-registered fishing vessel SPINNINGDALE (2008)
• Stranding of the RIVERDANCE ferry (2008)
• Loss of the Panamanian / Greek vessel ICE PRINCE (2008)
• Loss of the Scottish fishing vessel FISHER BOYS (2008)
• Loss of the French fishing vessel LA P'TITE JULIE (2008)
• Stranding of the LT CORTESIA on Varne Bank (2008)
• Container losses in context (including those washed up on Scilly from the ENDEAVOR)
• Capsize of the FLYING PHANTOM tug at Clydebank
• Wind turbines and shipwrecks
• A reminder of wartime losses: more than 5,000 individuals as a result of mines alone in the SUK area.
• Tecentenary commemorations of the 1707 disaster that befell Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's Fleet
• MV JORK - Collision with Viking Echo Gas Platform in the North Sea
• Isles of Scilly Shipwreck Anniversaries in 2007
• MSC NAPOLI refloated after nearly six months and a £50m bill
• MERCHANT ROYAL, lost 23rd September 1641 and not yet found...

• Cause of Loss
• Connections with other shipwrecks involved in the same cause event (destroyer-laid mines 18th/19th November 1939)
• Detailed, zoomed-in view example of the hostility / mines cause of loss
• Losses associated with the `Big Wind`, 1839
• Losses by cargo type (salt example)
• Losses by ship name (St Anthony)
• Wrecks associated with British Ports (Newlyn example)
  • Ships registered at the port
  • Ships on voyage from the port
  • Ships on voyage to the port
  • Ships built at the location
• Lives lost (WW1 and WW2) [part]
• All losses within a selected area (Mull example)

Please note that the work of Shipwrecks UK is able to exploit our unrivalled electronic resource - supplemented by access to additional research archives. Normally we will provide answers to your enquiries as pdf documents and we are able to provide rapid turnaround e-books; bespoke hard copy output can also be provided on request.

• Telephone
  
  • Alan Jones, Managing Director
  • Richard Larn, Chairman
    
• Email
  
  • research@shipwrecks.uk.com
• Post
  
  • Alan Jones
  • Richard and Bridget Larn
    
  
  
• Online form for queries and comments