Maritime record MWX2544 - Pin Wreck - items recovered

Items recovered from the 'Pin Wreck', located off Weymouth, south of St Aldhelm's Head, Purbeck, Dorset: 1 x pin | 1 x nail (1); 2 x rivets | 2 x gauges | 4 x valves/wheels | 1 x deck scupper (2); 1 x piece of copper anti-fouling | 1 x large copper rivet with washers | 1 x copper nail 7" long | 9 x small copper nails (3); 2 x wrought iron pulley block & shackle & 3 bronze webbed wheels | 2 x pulley wheels | 1 x copper pin, short length heavy rope | 1 x spherical glass vessel (broken) | 2 x tapered bronze seacocks (4). The Pin Wreck was located in 1990 and appears to be a late nineteenth century barge wooden barge carrying phosphor bronze pins/rivets. (5)

<1> Receiver of Wreck, Droit of the Receiver of Wreck A/2808 (Unpublished document). SWX548.

<2> Receiver of Wreck, Droit of the Receiver of Wreck A/2768 (Unpublished document). SWX544.

<3> Receiver of Wreck, Droit of the Receiver of Wreck A/2690 (Unpublished document). SWX538.

<4> Receiver of Wreck, Droit of the Receiver of Wreck A/0091 (Unpublished document). SWX222.

<5> Hinchcliffe, J and V, 1999, Dive Dorset: a diver guide (3rd Edition), Wreck 199, p149 (Monograph). SWX1.

Record last edited

Nov 6 2008 4:40AM