Shipwreck

[Roger Rabbit]

I was walking along the top of the cliffs and i saw this

http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/chrisoutlet/IMG_3827.jpg

Up closer it looked like this

http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/chrisoutlet/IMG_3830.jpg

[Falco]

whoa

[memphiz]

Thats cool

[Roger Rabbit]

Any ideas what it is? Went down and had a look, its all metal hull, and some of the parts of the metal had rubber tubes sticking out of them.

[memphiz]

Where do you live?

[Fenna]

It's a shipwreck! :lol:

Nice find

[Falco]

where was the picture taken?

[Roger Rabbit]

White Cliffs of Dover, south-east coast of Britain,

[Kenshin]

It could be one of these...

- An Alien spacecraft that crashed long ago and washed ashore.
- What remains of a mechanical sea creature.
- A just a ship that was got too close to the shore and met its end.

[Falco]

You could ask some of the older locals if they know anything about it. There is probably a registry of all the shipwrecks that happened in the region.

[Roger Rabbit]

Here we go


96 Preussen
5081-ton five-masted steel vessel. 408ft x 53ft. Was biggest sailing ship in world.
Cargo: General, cement, 100 pianos, Hamburg to Valparaiso.
Position: 58 08.02N; 01 22.17E.
Depth: 7m.
Sunk: 6 November 1910, driven ashore in Fan Bay after collision with cross-Channel steamer. Lines to tugs towing into Dover snapped in gale. Broken by later storms.
Diving: Wreckage broadside to great chalk cliff of Fan Point. Steel plates galore. Old bottles and gas lamps to be found in heavy kelp. "Stone" cement barrels run length of forehold. Most pianos salvaged. Some ribs show at low springs.
Launch: Dover.

Think thats it, if it is then i'm going back to look for booty, well something interesting like a bottle or something. Some nice bunkers around there as well so maybe more pictures this weekend.

Found this
http://www.beer-genealogy.freeserve.co.uk/local/dover/port/preussen.htm

http://www.divernet.com/wrecks/best91499.htm look at number 96

http://www.postcardworld.co.uk/cards/England/Kent/preus.jpg

[memphiz]

Looks like a war ship to me..but Im no expert

[Marmot1]

What's the size of it? can you make some close up photos?

[Roger Rabbit]

Can do if i go back this weekend, friend reckons it was about 400ft by 50ft making it the right size for the wreck i listed websites to. Right area as well.

Next to the wreck was what i thought was a bunker. Turns out it wasnt.

http://www.undergroundkent.co.uk/langdon_lights.htm

I didnt get any of my own pictures though. Anyway there are these sorts of things dotted up and down the coast from Napoleonic to WW2.

[Merik]

Dude that is f-ing awesome. Nice research too! woot

[Lysander]

That's pretty cool. I found turn of the century railroad spikes once. But, that's just not as cool :roll: and to top it off, my mom threw the "junk" out.

[Roger Rabbit]

Well i'm off out now(don't start work till 1 June) to find something else to do. Pictures if i find anything interesting.

[scm77]

That's pretty cool. I found turn of the century railroad spikes once. But, that's just not as cool :roll: and to top it off, my mom threw the "junk" out.
:cantbeli:

[Roger Rabbit]

Well well lookee what i found.

http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/chrisoutlet/ahh_snake_047.jpg

http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/chrisoutlet/ahh_snake_040.jpg

http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/chrisoutlet/ahh_snake_029.jpg

http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/chrisoutlet/ahh_snake_033.jpg

http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/chrisoutlet/ahh_snake_030.jpg

[MolliG]

Kind of looks like a (small) Grass snake. :D

[Roger Rabbit]

This one was a dead un. But made for good pictures, shame i am crap with my camera, going to read the manual tonight, my mate got some great photos. Snake had no markings on it so don't know why it had died.

[MolliG]

Looks like it's pretty young, as reading what's in front of me it seems most Grass snakes grow to around 120 cm long. Survival of the fittest I guess...