Wrecks designated under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986

  PROTECTED WRECKS.

Name of Wreck
Location

Date

HMS DASHER Strathclyde WWII
HMS FORMIDABLE Devon WWII
HMS HAMPSHIRE Scapa Flow WWI
HMS NATAL Cromarty WWI
HMSubmarine A7 Plymouth 1914
HMS VANGUARD Scapa Flow WWI
HMS AFFRAY Isle of Wight 1951
HMS EXMOUTH Grampian WWII
HMS ROYAL OAK Scapa Flow WWII
HMSubmarine H5 Anglesey WWI
HMS SHEFFIELD Falklands 1982
HMS COVENTRY Falklands 1982
HMS ANTELOPE Falklands 1982
HMS ARDENT Falkland 1982

 

PROTECTED PLACES

Name of Wreck Location Date
RFA SIR GALAHAD Falklands 1982
HMS HOOD International Waters

WWII

HMS PRINCE of WALES International Waters, Malaysia WWII
HMS REPULSE International Waters, Malaysia WWII
HMS GLOUCESTER International Waters, Crete WWII
German Submarine U12 Dover WWII

Wrecks designated under section 1 of the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973

Site No. &

Date Designated

Name of Wreck Location Date of Sinking
1  5/9/73 CATTEWATER WRECK Plymouth 1530
2  5/2/74 MARY ROSE Solent 1545
3  5/2/74 GRACE DIEU Hamble River 1436
4  5/2/74 AMSTERDAM Hastings 1749
5  12/1/74 ROYAL YACHT MARY Skerries 1675
6  11/4/74 ASSURANCE/POMONE Needles

1738/1811

7  25/6/92 DARTMOUTH Sound of Mull 1690
8  20/6/74 ANNE Rye Bay 1690
9  13/3/75 TEARING LEDGE WRECK

Tearing Ledges

Isles of Scilly

1707(?)

10  12/5/74

       Revoked 1984

COLOSSUS Isles of Scilly 1798
11  15/3/76 RILL COVE WRECK Lizard 1616(?)

12  1/6/76

      Revoked 1984

RHINNS of ISLAY

WRECK

Isle of Islay 18th Century
13  27/5/77 SOUTH EDINBURGH CHANNEL Thames Estuary 18th Century
14  12/8/77 CHURCH ROCKS WRECK Teignmouth 16th Century
15  19/1/79 PWLL FANOG WRECK Menai Straits Medieval
16  8/3/78 MOOR SANDS Salcombe Mid Bronze Age
17  31/3/78 CORONATION (No1) Penlee Point 1691
18  26/5/78 LANGDON BAY WRECK Dover Mid Bronze Age
19  1/6/78 KENNEMERLAND Outer Skerries 1664
20  28/9/89 TAL-Y-BONT WRECK Cardigan Bay

1677

21  6/6/80 STIRLING CASTLE Goodwin Sands 1703
22  30/9/80 INVINCIBLE East Solent 1758
23  3/10/80 BARTHOLOMEW LEDGES WRECK

St Mary's Sound

Isles of Scilly

1597(?)
24  8/12/89 RESTORATION Goodwin Sands 1703
25  8/12/89 NORTHUMBERLAND Goodwin Sands 1703
26  15/2/82 ST ANTHONY Mounts Bay 1527
27  15/2/82 SCHIEDAM Gunwalloe Cove 1684
28  18/10/83 BRIGHTON MARINA WRECK Brighton 16th Century
29  1/2/85 YARMOUTH ROADS WRECK

Yarmouth

Isle of Wight

1567(?)
30  27/11/84 STUDLAND BAY WRECK Poole 1520 circa
31  3/1/90 ADMIRAL GARDNER Goodwin Sands 1809
32  22/9/86 HAZARDOUS Bracklesham Bay

1706

33  3/1/89 CORONATION (No2) Penlee Point 1691
34  3/1/90 IONA II Lundy 1864
35  14/3/90 GULL ROCK WRECK Lundy 15/16th Century
36  10/1/91 WRANGLES PALAIS Outer Skerries 1687
37  3/5/91 ERME ESTUARY WRECK Bigbury Bay ?
38  9/10/95 SMALLS WRECK Smalls Reef 1100
39  15/5/92 DUART POINT WRECK Sound of Mull 1653
40  22/4/93 GIRONA Lacanda Point 1588
41  11/11/93 ROYAL ANNE GALLEY Lizard 1721
42  26/11/93 ERME INGOT SITE Bigbury Bay ?
43  14/7/94 DUNWICH BANK WRECK Southwold 16th Century
44  4/7/96 RESURGAM Denbeighshire 1880
45  19/7/97 HANOVER Hanover Cove 1763
46  8/8/97 SEATON CAREW WRECK Seaton Carew 19th Century
47  24/10/97 SALCOMBE CANNON WRECK West Prawle 1640
48  26/11/98 HMSubmarine A1 Bracklesham Bay 1911
49  22/2/99 BURNTISLAND WRECK Firth of Forth 1633
50  14/6/99 LOOE BAR WRECK Mounts Bay 17th Century
51  19/8/00 MINGARY CASTLE WRECK Sound of Mull 17th Century
52  29/6/01 KINLOCHBERVIE WRECK Kinlochbervie 17th Century
53  4/7/01 COLOSSUS (stern section) St Mary's Roads 1798
54  1/12/01 CAMPANIA Firth of Forth 1918
55  2/4/02 DIAMOND (?) 52°46N  04°11W 19th Century
56  18/7/02 BONHOMME RICHARD Filey Bay 1779

Wreck protected under section 2 of the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973

 

Site No &

Date Designated

Name of Wreck Location Date of sinking
1  31/10/73 SS RICHARD MONTGOMERY Medway 1944
2  13/8/97 SS CASTILIAN East Platters 1943

Wreck designated as Maritime Scheduled Ancient Monuments

Name of Wreck Type of Vessel Location
BRUMMER Light Cruiser Scapa Flow
DRESDEN Light Cruiser Scapa Flow
KARLSRUHE Light Cruiser Scapa Flow
KÖLN Light Cruiser Scapa Flow
KONIG Battleship Scapa Flow
KRONPRINZ WILHELM Battleship Scapa Flow
MARKGRAF Battleship Scapa Flow
KILSPINDIE HULK No1 Fifie Aberlady Bay
KILSPINDIE HULK No2 Fifie Aberlady Bay
KILSPINDIE HULK No3 Fifie Aberlady Bay
KILSPINDIE HULK No4 Fifie Aberlady Bay
KILSPINDIE HULK No5 Fifie Aberlady Bay
KILSPINDIE HULK No6 Fifie Aberlady Bay
KILSPINDIE HULK No7 Fifie Aberlady Bay
KILSPINDIE HULK No8 Fifie Aberlady Bay
LOUISA Merchant Ship 19th Century Grangetown, River Taf

 

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