SHIPS Projects

Wrecks

Shipwreck Exploration

Researching, finding and mapping shipwrecks around Plymouth.

Plymouth Castle

Plymouth Castle

Plymouth Castle and Barbican rediscovered.

1000 Tyres

1000 Tyres Project

Cleaning up Plymouth Sound starts with 1000 tyres.

Objects

Stray Finds Project

Recording and rescuing objects found under the sea in the UK.

Foreshore Hulks

Foreshore Hulks

Hulks and wrecks on the foreshore around Plymouth

Places

James Eagan Layne

Life and loss of the Liberty Ship S.S. James Eagan Layne.

Objects

HMS/M A7

Studying the early RN submarine A7 sunk in Whitsand Bay, East Cornwall

Edgcumbe House

Metta Catharina Exhibit

Setting up the museum display at Mount Edgcumbe House

Cattedown Cannon

Cattedown Cannon

Rescuing a cannon dredged up off Cattedown

HMS Amethyst

Finding and excavating a Napoleonic Royal Navy frigate

Jennycliff Wall

Exploring a strange seabed feature in Jennycliff Bay

Royal Navy Wrecks

A database of Royal Navy wooden-built shipwrecks

Adopting Archives

Collecting shipwreck research documents and photographs

Breakwater Fort

Breakwater Fort Survey

Underwater surveying and recording research at the Breakwater Fort

University Projects

Projects in collaboration with the University of Plymouth

Calstock

Calstock Roman Fort

The search for the Roman river crossing of the Tamar

Cattewater Wreck

Cattewater Geophysics

Re-finding the Cattewater Wreck

Anchors

Anchors

The anchors of Plymouth Sound

Erme Estuary

Erme Estuary

Exploring the Erme Estuary shipwrecks

Goodwin Sands

Goodwin Sands

Dredgers, shipwrecks and crashed aircraft on the Goodwin Sands, Kent

Resurgam

Resurgam Submarine

The Victorian submarine sunk off North Wales.