Cornwall Maritime Archaeology is a website showcasing some of the maritime archaeological projects around Cornwall. We are volunteers, running our own projects around the Cornish coast. Projects include: monitoring and surveying protected historic sites that we have licenses to visit Read more…
At the end of the Great War, the Keisers’s high seas fleet was interned at Scapa Flow, Orkney. Due to some miscommunication or maybe the lack of communication, Rear Admiral von Reuter ordered the scuttling of the entire fleet. Most Read more…
Appeared in DIVER November 2016 Thirty-one people died off Cornwall when a boat unfit to be at sea went missing, but in the aftermath of England’s World Cup victory the headlines went missing too. Fifty years on, MARK MILBURN set Read more…
On March 3rd 1915, the 325 ton trawler ‘St Ives H11’ was requisitioned for the navy. It was converted into an auxiliary patrol vessel, it entered naval service in May 1915 as 1192. HM Trawler St Ives, along with other Read more…
A press release by David Gibbins regarding our dive on the Loe Bar site. 29 May 2018 – Cornwall, UK Divers off Cornwall have discovered cannons and an anchor thought to be from one of the richest ships ever to Read more…
Over the last few weeks, we have visited the local museum and library at Helston. Both these visits have revealed wrecks that there are no readily available information for. The Helston folk museum has oil paintings of wrecks, not just Read more…
The Royal Naval frigate, HMS Anson, is an important wreck in British history. After witnessing the wreck of the Anson, so close to shore, Henry Trengrouse (18 March 1772 – 14 February 1854) invented the ‘Rocket‘ life-saving apparatus. John Hearle Read more…
Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt
The word Cannon refers to land based artillery with it’s projectiles being called cannonballs. The word Gun refers to ship based artillery with it’s projectiles being called roundshot. Quite often these terms get interchanged, a cannon is a gun and Read more…
At the inner harbour mouth of Porthleven, there are two cannons on carriages. The cannons were removed from the wreck of the HMS Anson and placed on replica carriages. These large guns are an impressive sight and worth a look Read more…
The Coronation was a 2nd rate ship of the line, carrying an armament of 90 guns. Wrecked in 1691, it now lies in two parts about 800m apart. We have visited the site multiple times in the past, just to Read more…