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An 'A' frame located adjacent to the stern of SS Mistley, not surprising bearing in mind that she was a steam trawler.
As you move south the wreck doesn't appear to peter out and you do need more than a couple of dives to do the site justice
The same guys swimming through a line of structure, torches just 'pin-pricks' in the gloom!
Another larger boiler, showing the fire hole, head from the donkey boiler back along a 10m deep zone and you'll find it.
A common starfish (Asterias rubens) attempting to open a small scallop, one of my mates Hud, is so bad at scalloping he looks for starfish feeding and then steals the scallop!
Bimble around most sites up here in Gods country and you will soon feel like the Pied Piper with shoals of immature Coalfish (Pollachius virens) following you about hoping to grab any tasty morsel that you may dislodge or cause to break cover.
Some of the spars n bars poke up some way towards the surface
A compressed air tank, as used to blow ballast from the tanks and enable the submarine to surface. There are loads of these dotted around the site, they are not torpedos, lost dive cylinders or similar and to date I haven't managed to find any with the brass valves in place.
It's been part polished now but this nameplate for the Boatswains Cabin was taken from SS Abessinia on Knifestone at the Farne Islands. There must be hundreds or perhaps thousands of dives per year and you can still, on occasion, pick up something 'nice'.
I know the location of a porthole which is currently covered, when the next storm removes the cover I will be there with my tools and implements!
The upper mounting position where the pin would fit with a wrist mounted compass to give some sort of scale
Compare and contrast a real cannon with the claimed cannon on the Hopper!
Cascabels, trunions and the taper of the barrel!
Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a section of hull plating.
More wrecky bits against the reef face
A white german fire brick, the engine area has been heavily salvaged so there are a few bricks dotted about
Sea-squirts and rock boring sponge, so different from North East species!
On the West side of the site, towards the North end. It looks ideal for scallops but no sign of any or indeed empty predated shells.
A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands, against a back drop of The Hopper
The engine block, the shot-line is tied to this
A shot of the sea-bed in about twenty five meters off the Harcarrs, its all flat rock, small gravel beds and short drop offs.
You can get inside one boiler and in sunny weather get shots through the perforated section
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