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International Marine Archaeological & Shipwreck Society International Marine Archaeological & Shipwreck Society Newsletter No. 9 1 Table of Contents IMASS Officers & Committee Members .............................................................................. 3 President’s Remarks ........................................................................................................... 4 Diver Magazine’s new Consultant ....................................................................................... 6 Armada cannon found and raised ........................................................................................ 7 Mystery of gun recovered from the deep by trawler. ............................................................ 8 River Hamble historic ship remains discovered ................................................................... 8 Rubber like blocks washed up on the north coast of Cornwall............................................. 8 Wreck timbers found by 13 year old at Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire ................................... 9 Sunken cargo ship found in the Pentland Firth .................................................................... 9 Police diver’s discovery of 42 years ago goes on sale at Bonham’s .................................... 9 Cocaine brought to UK inside a ship’s rudder found in Scotland ....................................... 10 New underwater attraction at quarry .................................................................................. 10 New WW2 wreck found in Scapa Flow .............................................................................. 10 Mary Rose Museum receives a well deserved accolade ................................................... 11 350 year old Royal Navy gun carriage raised in the Thames ............................................ 11 The bell of HMS Hood raised ............................................................................................. 11 World War 1 Wrecks Project .............................................................................................. 12 Deep Irish Sea wrecks investigated ................................................................................... 12 Two arrested over cruiser finds ......................................................................................... 12 Kent wreckers found guilty................................................................................................. 13 Submarine A-1 gets diver trail ........................................................................................... 13 Bell of the SS Caroline, 1878 found ................................................................................... 13 Sunderland flying-boats discovered ................................................................................... 14 A monster off the British coast: Rusting hulk of World War One German U-boat emerges after almost a century ........................................................................................................ 14 Whitstable diver Alan Nichols feared police treasure probe before taking own life in West Blean Nature Reserve ....................................................................................................... 14 Shifting sand dunes reveal large Bronze Age settlement .................................................. 15 WWII shipwreck packed bombs that could destroy a Kent ................................................ 15 Massive Ancient Greek city discovered submerged in Aegean Sea .................................. 16 Swedish Kings Flagship found ........................................................................................... 16 144-year-old Arctic shipwreck discovered; climate change to thank??? ............................ 16 Dig Reveals 18th-Century Shipwreck. ............................................................................... 17 Multibillion Dollar Shipwreck Found Off Colombia ............................................................. 17 Sunken haul of Roman fish sauce found off Italy ............................................................... 18 New technologies and tools to map and protect underwater treasures ............................. 18 MH370 Search Finds New Shipwreck, But No Plane ........................................................ 19 Maritime Archaeological Conference (Bournemouth University) ....................................... 19 2 IMASS Newsletter Number 9 Editors Comments I assume that IMASS Officers & Committee most members of IMASS are Members aware that our Chairman, President – Richard Larn OBE Neville Oldham Vice Presidents – Peter McBride died at his home Alan Bax in Devon on 17 Chairman – Allen Murray November 2015, Vice Chairman – Peter Holt aged 80, after a long battle with cancer. Secretary – Steve Roue Our sincere condolences are extended to Treasurer & Conference Booking Gill, Neville’s wife who married him in Secretary – Nick Nutt 1987, and his three step children. Conference Ticket Secretary Neville was best known for his - Steve Clarkson willingness to defend the ordinary diver Technical Advisor - Peter Holt engaged in marine archaeology and NAS. Contact Officer – Jon Parlour wreck exploration. Neville did not shy Web Master – Richard Knights away from officialdom, and had many a News Letter Editor – Richard Larn, OBE run-in with archaeologists and academia Assistant New letter Editor if he felt that divers were not being – Steve Clarkson recognised or given for their work. Made Committee Member – Ayse Atauz a Fellow of NAS in 2011, he was no Committee Member stranger to Buckingham Palace, where on – Trevor Newman no less than four occasions he received, individually or on behalf of SWMAG Cover photograph: The wreck of the (South West Maritime Archaeological battleship HMS Warspite off St. Group), Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards. His Michael’s Mount, Cornwall, 23.4 1947. last visit in 2014, he was given the Gold Source: editors collection.. medal for the Group’s Bigbury Bay Project. Views expressed and comments made by He worked tirelessly for IMASS, and authors, individual subscribers or as Chairman helped organise our annual Committee Members to this News Letter Shipwreck Conferences for the past 30 are personal, and do not reflect the odd years. Born in Cheshire in 1935, he opinions of IMASS, its Officers or grew up on the family farm, then lived Committee. over the pub his father took on until aged IMASS (the International Maritime 18 he joined the Grenadier Guards. In Archaeological & Shipwreck Society) time he became an Assault Pioneer continues to be unbiased, maintaining an Sergeant, serving in the Suez War which impartial attitude regarding all aspects of is where he learnt to dive in 1957. The maritime archaeology, shipwrecks and East Cheshire BS-AC Club was close to diving, being dedicated to allowing and his heart, and as well as having been its supporting the freedom of speech. secretary, training officer and chairman, he was made an honorary club member in 1979. 3 On leaving the army, President’s Remarks Neville started his own building company th which specialised in older This is the Society’s 9 News Letter, buildings and dry stone and I trust you will find the contents walling. He and Gill then varied and interesting. Steve Clarkson, moved to Hope Cove, our Assistant Editor, who makes sense of Devon, where they ran a guest house, my scribblings and inserts photographs Neville realising his dream when he and generally tidies up the production bought a dive charter boat using his huge before it is released, does a magnificent amount of knowledge concerning job and I extend not only my personal shipwrecks in the area. thanks to him, but those of the IMASS This led to Neville teaming up with Committee as a whole. Thanks Steve. divers from the Northampton BS-AC, who In 2015 we lost our Chairman as well as between them went on to make some three other prominent associates who will spectacular underwater finds in the Erme be sadly missed. I refer to Margaret Rule, Estuary, Moorsands, and offshore from Martin Dean, Colin Carpenter, Gordon Salcombe. It is said that the team turned Ridley and Tom Clancy. You will find down an offer of £1.2 million for the cache more details in the following pages. of gold coins and jewellery they found off In Feb 2016 the Society had another Salcombe, which was later purchased by rd. the British Museum. This find led to the successful Conference, our 34 Speakers covered topics include the team being featured in a BBC film, “White th Slaves, Pirate Gold”, “Digging for Britain wreck of the 17 century London; Tearing with Alice Roberts” and “Ancient Britain Ledge, on the Scillies; stories of Spanish with Neil Oliver”. For over five years treasure galleons; a West Indiaman lost in Devon; HMS. Pathfinder, the first Royal Neville and the team have been running projects sponsored by the BS-AC Jubilee Navy warship lost in WW1; the wreck of Invincible Trust, and some of their work can be HMS in the Solent, and the found on www.marine archaeology.org. Shipwreck Project, all of which proved In collaboration with Steve Clarkson, very interesting. also a member of the IMASS Committee, In addition we have interesting news they co-authored a book on their search accounts of a diver fined £35,000, for the wreck of the San Pedro el Mayor, ongoing shipwreck projects in the west a Spanish Armada hospital ship known to country; new wreck discoveries in United have sunk near Bolt Tail, copies of which Kingdom waters, and similar events can be bought on Amazon. In 2002
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