Wrecked Podcast ⚓

*coming soon* Wrecked: A Podcast on the Rocks. A podcast dedicated to stories of shipwrecks and other salty seafaring shenanigans, each with a spirited match.

[The Fram Museum @FramMuseum]

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the death of #ColinArcher the designer and builder of the #Polarship #Fram. On 6 March 1890 Nansen wrote Archer a letter asking for advice on a skip for his upcoming #NorthPole expedition. A few week later a legendary partnership started.

[Wrecked Podcast ⚓ @PodcastWrecked]

They’re both part of one of the largest industries in the UK – maritime transportation – and there’s really not very much surviving of that fleet. So these are rare examples of what was once a very common sight.
https://t.co/kVcE0gtBqk

[Benedict Allen @benedictallen]

'Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.'

So quipped Francis Chichester, solo Gypsy Moth pilot and round-the-world yachtsman - someone who could navigate with charts, tables and sextant while still sailing or flying.

[Wrecked Podcast ⚓ @PodcastWrecked]

Fascinating #thread to learn more about the background of the sea shanties currently taking over tiktok ⚓ #seashanty

[Ian Cuthbert @headscarfpride]

53 years today since the first ship was lost in what would become infamously known as the #TripleTrawlerDisaster.

The St. Romanus from #Hull was lost on 11 January 1968 with her crew of twenty tragically lost with her. Below are several newspaper articles from that dark winter.

[Wrecked Podcast ⚓ @PodcastWrecked]

The Gibson family’s haunting shipwreck photographs were taken in the late C19th and C20th. Four generations of the family photographed more than 200 wrecks along the coasts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. https://t.co/g6tfWWMVsK

[The Explorers Club @ExplorersClub]

#OTD 24 Oct 1915 "there came what for the Endurance was the beginning of the end ... throughout the day we watched the threatening advance of the floes. At 6.45 p.m. the ship sustained heavy pressure in a dangerous position." Ernest Shackleton #antarctica

[On This Day RN @OnthisdayRN]

#OnThisDay 1805 @RoyalNavy was successful in defeating the Franco-Spanish Fleet at the Battle of #Trafalgar confirming British superiority of the seas. Lord Nelson died before the end, having done his duty, handing over Command to another great commander Admiral Collingwood.

[Royal Navy @RoyalNavy]

Today is #TrafalgarDay, a highly important day in the Royal Navy Calendar as it is the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar which defined the Age of Sail and which sealed British dominion of the seas for a hundred years. https://t.co/FkxkjEe1NA

[On This Day RN @OnthisdayRN]

#OnThisDay 1817 HMS TRINCOMALEE was launched in Bombay. Sold in 1897 and used as cadet ship TS FOUDROYANT @HMNBPortsmouth until 1987 when she was transported to #Hartlepool to be restored where she is now on display and is the oldest @RoyalNavy Warship afloat. @HartlepoolWeb

[Hakai Magazine @hakaimagazine]

After decades at the bottom of the sea, thousands of corroded Second World War wrecks threaten to spill their oil into the South Pacific.
https://t.co/QMCQn1sDmn

[Royal Museums Greenwich @RMGreenwich]

On a fateful September night in 1838, Grace Darling saw the wreck of the vessel Forfarshire being beaten by the waves. Grace, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, set out with her father in their small boat across to rescue the survivors: https://t.co/SDBww0wZxL

[Parks Canada @ParksCanada]

BREAKING #Franklin NEWS! 📣 Take an unprecedented look inside the wreck of #HMSTerror – lost at sea over 170 years ago! 🌊 Dive into #history and watch the full #NeverBeforeSeen video here: https://t.co/Zk0akFMS5j #Archaeology @PCArchaeology #FranklinExpedition

[Politics & Contemporary History at Salford @SalfordUni_PCH]

#OTD 1945: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the Portland-class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis. The ship had completed a top secret mission delivering parts of the atomic bomb. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft finds the survivors. #WW2

[Stephen Fisher @SeaSpitfires]

S3 Embarkation Hard in Southampton. The concrete access road next to The Platform pub leads to the hard, whilst the intertidal area is surfaced using the precast mats visible in the photo. The dolphin mooring pier leads into the deeper water. Pic from Dalton Newfield Collection.

[UK Antarctic Heritage Trust @AntarcticHT]

Artefacts aren't always what they seem

#OneMansTrashIsAnotherMansHistory

Pictured: Antarctic artefacts at Stonington base, Antactica

[Black Sea MAP @BlackSeaMAP]

This side scan sonar image shows an intact #shipwreck with masts still fully intact at the bottom of the Black Sea #GhostsOfTheDeep

[Hardiman's Galway @HardimansGalway]

A flying bó for #CowAppreciationDay! Photographic negative from the wonderful series featuring island livestock transportation, 1976. Inis Mór, Aran Islands, Co. #Galway 🐄⛵️ (@DCLAReadingRoom Fáilte Ireland Collection #archives) #Galway2020 #WildAtlanticWay

[Archaeology | Southampton @sotonarch]

The details on some of the @BlackSeaMAP #shipwrecks are incredible. Like this vessel's beautiful carved transom, featured in a #WreckOfTheWeek thread. But, shudder at the extent of the #plasticpollution visible. more in #ghostsofthedeep #more4 @unisouthampton @OceanEarthUoS

[Age of Sail Writers Group @AgeofSailWG]

Ships of Jack Aubrey https://t.co/yXBymPGt6N