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A lesser spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus conicula), well actually there were half a dozen under the plate!
A view into the propellor shaft, simply taking a bearing along the shaft and follow over the sand and you will reach the other part of the wreck
Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock
More non-ferrous from Mistley and this time some golf balls for good measure!
In the actual 'submarine hole' it is an absolute mishmash of bits concreted onto the bottom, in this case a heavy gauge cable has been concreted onton steel and rock
A Sea Toad (Hyas araneus) hiding in among the Dead- mans fingers
Some sort of winching arrangement, this is a large section of wreckage within a short distance of the boilers
After the propellor the next 'lump' is a set of bollards
A small shellfish, probably some type of oyster. I took this photograph as I have never seen one before and thought it may be a 'foreign invader', it isn't!
Mid-way along the site is an area of angular boulders which go further up the wall (?) they appear new, with very little life attached' but have been there over 30 years. Look carefully and you will find crustaceans among the jumble.
A pretty little light, one of the guys thought 'deck light' but with a solid back and close to another two broken lights I would think a bulkhead light of some description, date late victorian to pre WWI.
This is a shot from the back showing that there is no path for the sunlight above the deck, it is blanked off
A nice size brass valve, fresh water inlet, from Mistley. I'm not sure if metric pipework systems were used when she was built but the valve had a 35 cast into it.
Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship.
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