Ponderings over the pond: A piece of a shipwreck

Saturday, March 29, 2008

At Spurn head we saw a bit of a stranded ship. The iron had been corroded and sanded into a smooth black object, nearly organic in shape.

LS said...: I love this photo. I wonder what part of the ship it was, and how it ended up on the shore. Do you think that shop stranded close by?; March 29, 2008 at 9:36 PM
O.K. said...: Beautiful. I like the smooth, sculpted shape the sand and water gave it, perfect as a garden ornament. Was it large?; March 30, 2008 at 6:51 AM
LS said...: I have decided I think this is a steelified (as opposed to fossilized) hammerhead shark. Unless someone else can come up with a better theory of what this might have been.; March 30, 2008 at 9:32 PM
Olle said...: It was about 10 inches long. And it was next to a big chunk of a ship machinery (a boiler or what?, you can see a picture of it on my webalbum
(http://picasaweb.google.com/olle.edqvist/SpurnHeadBeverley/photo#5183140786653032706).

There is a series of ship wrecks outside that reef, and this one could have been from a relatively late one stranded in 1970's I would guess. But how the parts have been moved from the bottom up on the shore I have no idea - would they not normally sink into the sand? They were certainly not there when I visited the shore a couple of years back.; April 2, 2008 at 2:08 AM

Ponderings over the pond