Wreck of Wheel Wreck
United Kingdom
- Position
- About 49.9° N, 6.2° W (within about 10 km)
- Sank
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- Cause
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- Depth
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Protection status
Location generalised to protect a protected site
The position shown is generalised to within about 10 km. The exact position is not published.
Officially designated: Protected Wreck (Protection of Wrecks Act 1973, named in the history text).
Legal basis: Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 (UK).
How this was decided: Voydar's protection rules, from the sources we hold, confidence 90%. When in doubt, Voydar generalises the position.
The Wheel Wreck is the remains of a shipwreck lying in Crow Sound off Little Ganinick in the Isles of Scilly. The wreck site consists of a discrete mound of cargo that appears to consist of numerous sizes of different iron wheels, cogs, clack valves, tubes and boiler pipes. Lead scupper pipes and other small artefact material show the ship was once present; however, not much remains of this vessel today. A Trotman-style anchor lies some 60m from the site, and this, along with the cargo, dates the site to sometime just after 1835. It has been published that this may be the wreck of the Padstow; however, as the latter was lost in 1804, this can not be so, as neither boiler tubes nor Trotman anchors had been invented then. The wreck was discovered by local diver Todd Stevens in 2005 and investigated by the archaeological contractor for the Protection of Wrecks Act in 2006.
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