shipwreck Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/shipwreck/ Mechanically-minded travel Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:47:02 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 Bomb ship’s dangerous masts are finally to be removed https://mechtraveller.com/2026/07/bomb-ships-dangerous-masts-are-finally-to-be-removed/ https://mechtraveller.com/2026/07/bomb-ships-dangerous-masts-are-finally-to-be-removed/#respond Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:46:33 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=13346 The government says that work to remove the three masts from the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery in the Thames estuary will begin in early September. SS Richard Montgomery was a WW2 American Liberty ship that dragged her anchor while waiting to unload her cargo of munitions on 20 Aug 1944. She ended up […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2026/07/bomb-ships-dangerous-masts-are-finally-to-be-removed/feed/ 0 Virtual Reality tour of a WWII Japanese submarine wreck released on the 80th anniversary of her sinking https://mechtraveller.com/2022/01/virtual-reality-tour-of-a-wwii-japanese-submarine-wreck-released-on-the-80th-anniversary-of-her-sinking/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/01/virtual-reality-tour-of-a-wwii-japanese-submarine-wreck-released-on-the-80th-anniversary-of-her-sinking/#respond Wed, 19 Jan 2022 08:00:19 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7250 I-124 was a WWII Japanese submarine that was sunk with all hands (80 crew) by Allied forces on 20 Jan 1942 while on a mine-laying mission in the Beagle Gulf, Australia. She lies in 46 metres (150 ft) of water, 84 kilometres north-west of Darwin, NT. In anticipation of tomorrow’s 80th anniversary, in October 2021 […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2022/01/virtual-reality-tour-of-a-wwii-japanese-submarine-wreck-released-on-the-80th-anniversary-of-her-sinking/feed/ 0 Elaborate plan to recover the historic Marconi radio from RMS Titanic https://mechtraveller.com/2020/07/elaborate-plan-to-recover-the-historic-marconi-radio-from-rms-titanic/ https://mechtraveller.com/2020/07/elaborate-plan-to-recover-the-historic-marconi-radio-from-rms-titanic/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:04:40 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6194 RMS Titanic, Inc (RMST), the company that has been recovering artifacts from the wreck of the Titanic since 1987, says it plans to make a ninth dive to the wreck in 2021, in a bid to recover the Marconi Wireless Telegraph from the Titanic’s radio room. The attempt will require some sophisticated undersea engineering using […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2020/07/elaborate-plan-to-recover-the-historic-marconi-radio-from-rms-titanic/feed/ 5 Expedition Cruise Finds 116 Year Old Whaling Ship Wreck https://mechtraveller.com/2018/09/expedition-cruise-finds-116-year-old-whaling-ship-wreck/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/09/expedition-cruise-finds-116-year-old-whaling-ship-wreck/#respond Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:31:23 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3663 Canadian expedition cruise company, One Ocean Expeditions (OOE) in collaboration with The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) has helped to find the Nova Zembla, a Scottish whaling ship that was wrecked near Buchan Gulf off the coast of Baffin Island in 1902. Dr. Matthew Ayre and Dr. Michael Moloney, from the Arctic Institute of North […]

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