| Acheron |
| Sunk 1940 hit a mine |
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| AJAX |
| Sunk by a Stuka |
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| ALBION 11 |
| Hit a mine |
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| Alcester |
| The Alcester was an iron vessel of 1597 tons, bound from Calcutta to Hamburg. She ran aground some 350 yards off shore between 4pm and 5pm on the afternoon of Friday, February 27th in a particularly dense fog. |
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| ALGERIAN |
| Hit a mine |
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| ASBORG |
| Torpedoed 1918 |
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| Atlas |
| The Austrian barque, Atlas, was driven ashore on Atherfield Ledge in a severe storm of wind and rain. She was seen by a coastguard who alerted the Brighstone lifeboat crew. The Worcester Cadet put to sea but after a three mile struggle was unable to get alongside and was eventually obliged to return to station. |
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| Auguste |
| The three masted iron barque, Auguste, of 1298 tons out of Freemantle, Western Australia with a cargo of jarrah wood to pave the London streets, ran aground in a southerly gale and driving rain, close to the spot where the S.S. Eider grounded in 1892. |
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| AZEMMOUR |
| Torpedoed 1918 |
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| BETTANN |
| Developed a leak and sank |
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| BOXER (HMS) |
| Collided with the SS St. Patrick and sank 1918 |
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| BRAAT 11 |
| Torpedoed and sunk 1918 |
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| Brigantine "Noordster" |
| Dutch two masted vessel, 183 tons register, bound from Maracaybo, Central America, founded off Brook Point -circa 1895 |
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| Britannia HMY |
| Britannia HMY was scuttled off St Catherine's Point on the orders of King George V, who inherited it from King Edward VII, he wanted her scuttled after his death. |
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| CAMBERWELL (Possibly) |
| Hit a mine and sank 1917 |
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| CAMSWAN |
| Collided with the Polbrai and sank 1917 |
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| CAROLINE SUSAN |
| MY Caroline Susan sank 1940, possibly hit a mine |
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| Cedarine |
| The barque, Cedarine, built in Bermuda was on her maiden voyage from Bermuda to Portsmouth when she ran aground about 100 yards east of Brighstone Grange in the early hours of 2nd April 1862. |
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| Clairmont |
| The steamship Claremont of Newcastle 668 tons, with a cargo of iron and copper ore from Vallerigan to Middlesbrough. |
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| COASTER |
| World War 1 coaster, name unknown |
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| CONCRETE BARGE |
| Sank while being towed 1980 |
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| COQUETDALE |
| Sunk during air raid by Stukas, 1940 |
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| Cormorant |
| The steamship Cormorant ran ashore at the mouth of Whale Chine in thick fog in the early hours of December 21st. |
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| Cowes HM Customs |
| The earliest instance of smuggling found on the Island (although undoubtedly not the first!), was in February 1395 when the Rector of Freshwater, Thomas Symonde received a writ of summons on a charge of smuggling wool into France, which is confirmed in Wykehams Register. |
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| CRESTFLOWER (HMT) |
| Sunk during air-raid 1940 |
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| Diligent |
| The steamship, Diligent, of the Westall Line ran aground on Atherfield Ledge in dense fog, strong wind and rough sea. She was 1429 tons register, bound from Huelva, Spain, to Antwerp. |
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| Dizzy Dunlop |
| The schooner Dizzy Dunlop out of Portmadoc with a cargo of slates became a total wreck. |
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| Dolly |
| The schooner, Dolly, bound from Teignmouth to Bridgeness, Scotland, ran aground on Atherfield Ledge in thick fog in the early hours of May 8th. |
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| Duke of Westminster |
| The Duke of Westminster, a fine steel steamer of 3726 tons register en route from Brisbane to London ran aground in a fog so dense that it took the lifeboat two hours to find her. |
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| ELFORD |
| Hit a mine and sunk 1917 |
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| Ernst - Schooner |
| 3 masted schooner - wood construction, wrecked on the Shingles banl Alum Bay 1898 Capt. Wallis commanding. |
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| ESPAGNE |
| Torpedoed and sunk 1917 |
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| Essen |
| Grounded February 1881 at Rocken End
Captain Jurgensen
Cargo: iron ore |
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| FALLODON |
| Torpedoed and sunk 1917 |
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| FRANCE AIMEE |
| Collided with HMS P 35 and sank |
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| GERARDA |
| Collided with the Banares and sank 1882 |
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| GERMAN TUG |
| Reason for sinking unknown, date unknown. |
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| Gudrun - Brigantine |
| 238 tons register ship of Fowey in Cornwall, laden with china clay and bound for Leith, floundered with the loss of her crew, flounderdd with complete loss of crew on the Shingles off Totland Bay |
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| Harry Sharman |
| The tugboat Harry Sharman sank in Sandown Bay in 1970 when ir ran aground while trying to assist the stricken tanker Pacific Glory |
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| HIGHLAND BRIGADE |
| Torpedoed and sunk 1918 |
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| HMS Alliance |
| On one January night in 1968 the submarine HMS Alliance, heading back to Gosport in company with another boat ended up on Bembridge ledge. |
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| HMS Assurance (5th Rate Frigate) |
| HMS Assurance was lost en route from Jamaica to Portsmouth, she was a wooden sailing vessel built in 1747 at Bursledon. The ship was carrying the Governor of Jamaica home to Portsmouth when she struck Goose Rock, close to the Needles |
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| HMS Eurydice |
| Why HMS Eurydice, the Island's own ghost ship, sank on March 22nd 1878 is a mystery which has not been satisfactorily explained. Of the 366 men on-board under the command of an experienced crew, only 2 survived. |
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| HMS Invincible |
| Launched at Rochefort, France, in 1744, the 3rd rate 74 gun warship Invincible was captured by the British at the first Battle of Finisterre in 1747 and taken into the Royal Navy, wrecked on the 22 February 1758. |
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| HMS Pomone |
| HMS Pomone was built in 1805 at Frindsbury. She was returning from the Mediterranean (Constantinople) when the captain tried to navigate the Needles at night when she too struck Goose Rock. The vessel was carrying Sir Halford Jones, late Ambassador to the Persian court |
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| HMS Royal George |
| HMS Royal George was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 18 February 1756. She sank at off Portsmouth / Spithead/ Ryde Sands on 29 August 1782 with the loss of more than 800 lives. |
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| HMS Swordfish |
| The S Class Portsmouth based submarine left harbour on the 7th November 1940, Sixty-three S Class submarines were built between 1930 - 1945. |
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| IDUNA |
| Collided with the sailing ship ZADOK in dense fog and sank. |
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| Irex |
| The Irex, a new full-rigged ship bound from Glasgow to Rio de Janeiro, had been battered by storms for some 20 days, first in the Irish Sea and then in the Bay of Biscay. With some of the crew injured and a shifted cargo, the captain decided to run back for shelter. |
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| IRON SHIP |
| Identity unknown |
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| ISLEWORTH |
| Torpedoed and sunk 1918 |
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| JO-ANNE |
| Collided with a buoy and sank 1976 |
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| KINGSTON CAIRNGORM |
| Anti Submarine trawler the Kingston Cairngom |
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| LCT 809 |
| Tank landing craft lost during Operation Neptune 1944 |
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| LEON |
| Torpedoed and sunk 1918 |
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| LOBSTER POCKETS |
| No details |
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| LONDONIER |
| Torpedoed and sunk 1918 |
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| Lotus |
| Grounded 19th October 1862 at Rocken End |
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| LUCISTON |
| Torpedoed and sunk 1917 |
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| LUIS |
| Torpedoed and sunk 1918 |
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| Manora |
| A Harbour defence vessel used to guard the opening in the submarine barrier at the eastern end of the Solent during WWII. Sunk on the night of December 17th 1944 in a storm by itself fouling on the submarine barrier. All crew were saved by the actions of the captain and the Bembridge lifeboat. |
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| MARGARET SMITH |
| Sprung a leak, capsized and sank, 1978 |
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| Mathilde |
| The Dutch galiot Mathilde drove ashore in heavy rain and a southerly gale at the foot of Blackgang Chine. The crew were rescued by the Wheeler family and the cargo was salvaged and sold, some of the locals earned good money carrying it up the cliff. |
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| MECHANICIAN |
| Torpedoed and sunk 1918 |
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| MOLINA |
| Torpedoed and sunk 1918 |
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| ORIFLAMME |
| Struck a mine and sank |
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| P-12 ( HMS ) |
| Broken is a collision and sunk 1918 |
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| Pacific Glory |
| The luckiest escape that the Island's shores have ever had from a shipwreck was that of the 43,000 ton Liberian super-tanker Pacific Glory, which carried a crew of 42 and 70,000 gallons of African crude oil. |
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| POOL FISHER |
| Sank in a gale in 1979 |
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| R.T.C. No 9 |
| Struck by HMS Endymion and cut in two, sank 1893 |
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| REDESMERE |
| Torpedoed and sank 1917 |
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| RMS Mendi |
| The greatest disaster to occur in Isle of Wight waters was the loss in 1917 of RMS Mendi , a steamer carrying more than 800 South African labourers to the Western Front in France, with a destroyer as escort. |
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| S S Cuba |
| The last incident of the war was the sinking of the S.S. Cuba. The S.S. Cuba was a 11,420 ton passenger liner which was sailing across Sandown Bay with its escort of 6 Destroyers to Portsmouth |
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| S.S. Virginia |
| The first large wreck of the 1950s was the S.S. Virginia, a 2,050 ton steamer that was wrecked whilst sailing from Bilboa to Bremen with a cargo of iron ore. |
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| SERRANA |
| Torpedoed and sank 1918 |
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| Shipwreck Centre and Maritime Experience |
| The Shipwreck and Maritime Museum was founded in 1978, and had been an ambition of the owner, Martin Woodward, since he first started diving on shipwrecks in the 1960s. Martin, a professional diver by trade, has amassed a huge collection of artefacts personally recovered by him from under the sea, and he is still actively diving on wrecks and archaeological projects worldwide. |
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| Sirenia |
| Sirenia under the command of Captain MacIntyre, out of San Francisco, via Cape Horn bound for Dunkirk with 25 crew as well as the Captain, his wife, their 3 children and their woman servant. The Sirenia was a three masted, full rigged ship with a strong iron and steel hull, weight 1,588 tons. |
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| SOUTH WESTERN |
| Torpedoed and sunk 1918, same location as the IDUNA |
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| Souvenir |
| On the night of February 4th 1916, the Norwegian barque Souvenir, after being in difficulties off Atherfield Point, eventually ran ashore at Brook. The members of the Coastguard were away, serving in the war, and the soldiers on duty probably did not understand her signals, so it was some time before her plight was known by the local lifeboat coxswain, Ben Jacobs. |
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| SS Eider |
| The largest shipwreck of the 19th Century on the Island was the wreck of SS Eider, the most spectacular shipwreck of the Victorian era. SS Eider was a giant 4,179-ton German luxury passenger liner. She was a four-masted two-funnelled steamer over 430ft long, with a crew of 167, and 227 passengers. She also carried over 500 sacks of mail, as well as just under 10 tons of gold and silver. |
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| St Monan |
| The Norwegian barque, St Monan, bound from Buenos Ayres to London, ran aground on Atherfield Ledge in thick fog in the early hours of June 3rd. |
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| TANK LANDING CRAFT (IOW) |
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| TERLINGS |
| Sunk during an air raid |
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| The Clarendon |
| The Clarendon set sail from St Kitts on August 27 1836 with a cargo of sugar, molasses and rum, 11 passengers and 17 crew. Six weeks later, on a morning bedevilled by howling gales and huge seas, she hit the beach at Blackgang, rolled onto her side and broke up in less than 10 minutes. |
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| The PS Portsdown |
| On 20th September, 1941, there was a dreadful disaster. The "Portsdown" was on the 4am mail run from Portsmouth Harbour and was in the Swashway, a channel near Spit Sand Fort |
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| TOCCATINA |
| Sank 1977 |
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| TS Empress Queen |
| The Empress Queen was launched in 1897 for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company Limited and was at 372ft long, with a gross tonnage of 2140 the biggest cross-channel paddle steamer in British waters. |
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| TWEED |
| Torpedoed and sank 1918 |
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| U-1195 |
| Sunk by depth charge 1944 |
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| UB-81 |
| Struck a mine and sank 1917 |
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| UPSTART |
| Obsolete submarine sunk as a sonar/Asdic target, one of a number of different vessels |
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| Varvassi |
| Waterlogged and abandoned, the victim of one of the most inexplicable accidents In the history, of wrecks on the Island coast, a Greek cargo steamer is lying athwart the Needles Bridge, a line of underwater rocks stretching between the Needles lighthouse and the Bridge buoy, marking the channel. |
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| WAPELLO (Possibly) |
| Sank 1917 |
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| WAR KNIGHT |
| Collided with the O B Jennings, beached in 1918 |
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| WESTVILLE |
| Torpedoed and sank 1917 |
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| Wheatfield |
| The steamship Wheatfield 1200 tons. General cargo of, amongst other things, tinned meat and flour - from Leith to New York. |
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| WITTE ZEE |
| Ran aground 1964 |
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