Shipwrecks

52 places across Britain and Ireland

• El Gran GrifónFair Isle, Shetland · An Armada ship wrecked on Britain's remotest inhabited island.
• HMS AnsonLoe Bar, near Porthleven, Cornwall · A shipwreck that inspired a rocket to save lives at sea.
• HMS ConwayMenai Strait, Anglesey · An old wooden warship wrecked in the Swellies.
• HMS EurydiceOff Dunnose, Isle of Wight · A training ship capsized by a sudden snowstorm, said to return as a ghost.
• HMS Formidable and the Real LassieLyme Bay, off Dorset · A torpedoed battleship, and a dog who brought a sailor back to life.
• HMS HampshireOff Marwick Head, Orkney · The cruiser that took Lord Kitchener to his death.
• HMS LondonThames Estuary, off Southend, Essex · A warship that blew itself up, still being studied on the seabed.
• HMS MontaguShutter Rock, Lundy · A brand-new battleship run aground in fog.
• HMS NatalCromarty Firth, Ross-shire · A warship that blew up during a film party, in a quiet Highland firth.
• HMS Royal GeorgeSpithead, off Portsmouth, Hampshire · A great warship that sank at anchor, with families visiting on board.
• HMS Royal OakScapa Flow, Orkney · A battleship sunk in Britain's safest harbour by a daring U-boat.
• HMS SaldanhaLough Swilly, County Donegal · A frigate lost with all hands, whose parrot turned up months later.
• HMS ThetisLiverpool Bay · A new submarine that sank on her trials with 99 men trapped inside.
• HMS VanguardScapa Flow, Orkney · A battleship that blew up at anchor, killing over 800.
• HMY IolaireBeasts of Holm, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis · Men home from the Great War, drowned yards from their own shore.
• La Trinidad ValenceraKinnagoe Bay, County Donegal · An Armada ship whose siege guns were found by a diving club.
• RMS LeinsterOff Dublin Bay · The worst disaster in the Irish Sea, a month before the war ended.
• Sir Cloudesley Shovell's FleetIsles of Scilly · A fleet that lost its way, and the disaster that led to the longitude prize.
• Streedagh StrandStreedagh, County Sligo · Three Armada ships wrecked on one beach, with over 1,000 dead.
• The AdelaarGreian Head, Isle of Barra · A Dutch treasure ship lost with all hands on Barra.
• The AmsterdamBulverhythe, near Hastings · A Dutch treasure ship whose wreck appears at very low tides.
• The Daphne DisasterLinthouse, Glasgow · A ship that capsized as she was launched, with workers inside.
• The Ellan VanninMersey Bar, Liverpool Bay · The Isle of Man's oldest ferry, lost with everyone aboard.
• The Eyemouth DisasterEyemouth, Scottish Borders · A storm that drowned 189 fishermen in a single afternoon.
• The Forfarshire and Grace DarlingBig Harcar, Farne Islands, Northumberland · A lighthouse keeper's daughter who rowed out into a storm.
• The GironaLacada Point, County Antrim · The Spanish Armada's worst disaster, wrecked near the Giant's Causeway.
• The Grace DieuRiver Hamble, Bursledon, Hampshire · Henry V's giant warship, still lying in the mud of a river.
• The Herzogin CecilieStarehole Bay, near Salcombe, Devon · One of the last great sailing ships, wrecked on the Devon coast.
• The KennemerlandOut Skerries, Shetland · A Dutch East Indiaman wrecked on Shetland's most remote isles.
• The LaurenticOff Fanad Head, County Donegal · A liner carrying 43 tons of gold, sunk by German mines.
• The LusitaniaOff the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork · A torpedoed liner whose sinking helped bring America into the war.
• The Mary RosePortsmouth Historic Dockyard, Hampshire · Henry VIII's warship, which sank before his eyes.
• The Mohegan and the ManaclesThe Manacles, near St Keverne, Cornwall · A deadly reef where a liner steered straight onto the rocks.
• The Penlee Lifeboat DisasterOff Mousehole, Cornwall · Eight lifeboatmen lost trying to save the crew of the Union Star.
• The Princess AliceTripcock Point, Thamesmead, London · The worst disaster in the history of the Thames.
• The Princess VictoriaNorth Channel, off the Copeland Islands · A car ferry lost in a great storm, with 133 dead.
• The ResurgamOff Rhyl, Denbighshire · One of the world's first steam-powered submarines.
• The RohillaSaltwick Nab, near Whitby, North Yorkshire · A hospital ship wrecked below Whitby, and a 50-hour rescue.
• The Rothesay CastleOff Puffin Island, Anglesey · A worn-out paddle steamer that broke up with over 100 lost.
• The Royal AdelaideChesil Beach, Dorset · An emigrant ship wrecked on Chesil, and a drunken free-for-all over its gin.
• The Royal CharterMoelfre, Anglesey · A gold ship lost in a hurricane, and the birth of the shipping forecast.
• The Samtampa and the Mumbles LifeboatSker Point, Porthcawl · A ship and the lifeboat sent to save her, both lost.
• The Santa María de la RosaBlasket Sound, County Kerry · An Armada ship that sank with just one survivor.
• The Scuttling at Scapa FlowScapa Flow, Orkney · The German fleet sank itself rather than be handed over.
• The SS MendiOff St Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight · Over 600 men of the South African Native Labour Corps lost in fog.
• The SS PoliticianEriskay, Outer Hebrides · A ship full of whisky that inspired Whisky Galore!
• The SS Richard MontgomeryThames Estuary, off Sheerness, Kent · A wreck still packed with explosives, its masts poking out of the water.
• The SS SchillerRetarrier Ledges, Isles of Scilly · A German liner lost in fog, and the islanders who buried its dead.
• The Swan, Duart PointDuart Point, Isle of Mull · A Cromwellian warship lost while attacking a Highland castle.
• The TayleurLambay Island, County Dublin · The 'first Titanic', wrecked on her maiden voyage.
• The Torrey CanyonSeven Stones reef, off Land's End, Cornwall · Britain's worst oil spill, and the day the RAF bombed a wreck.
• The W.M. BarkleyOff the Kish Bank, Dublin Bay · Guinness's first ship, sunk by a U-boat full of stout.