Random Jottings
A video of the wreckage of Mistley
The Mistley was an old steam trawler that was lost on the South Side of Beadnell Point
The remains are 'very flat' but she is still an interesting dive!
In common with most, if not all shallow wrecks, the remains change on an annual basis after the series of winter storms which always batter out coastline, there are still occasional bits to pick up an example being a porthole which was picked up in 2019, years and thousands of dives after she was first 'found'.
RichW
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Another breech assembly, you can see where someone has cleaned the 'crud' from the brass section
Nudibranch alert! This particular species appears to have electric blue tips when viewed in the water.
If you look carefully at shots of Yewglen you will see that she had a pair of rubbing strakes welded onto the side of he hull, another positive bit of identification!
I messed around with the images as the three larger holes do have a look of 'The Scream' by Munch, what do you think?
Arty-farty shot of a pinnacle
Iron pieces in some of the gullys that have been scoured out since last winter, they could have been virtually anything
The carriage was to be made from 'period oak'
Hanging doing deco
A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.
E - And based on the black colouration it was quite old, it was confirmed by experts that the timber was circa 17th century so very, very old!
Looking up at the side of the wreck you can see that plates, in this case' have fallen away or in some instances blasted to get at more valuable metal within enclosed spaces.
A very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), if hunting occies look for the eyes, they cannot change their 'slitted' eyes which look at you as an equal rather than some other sea creatures which appear not to have the intellegence of this species.
Bollards! I don't know if these are solid, I suspect not but they are one of the parts of the wreck that can be positively identified.
The engine block, the shot-line is tied to this
The barrel of one of the secondary guns
Brass petrol can tops from 1930's from another tosheroon at Beadnell
If the vis is a bit suspect dont do a 'hard' duck dive at the steps as banging your noggin on hard and sharp steel isn't conducive to a pleasant dip!
The rock formations are formed so that the 'vertical cliff' faces the shore and the slopes lead away to the east. You can see that the faces are quite fractured and home to loads of different life, some edible some not so
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
I am somewhat adept at finding taps which are then cleaned and nailed onto the shed-wall! This one was on Yewglen and all that was showing was a small bit of the handle and outlet, it came out of the iron crud really easily.