Granite stone pile

 

Blobby It looks like a blob on the chart!! Ship carrying a cargo of granite. A few large anchors and slightly smaller ones. Some iron work and wooden ship timbers under all the granite. 

Lots of broken pottery, some blue transfer ware but nothing to really give a good date. 

Quite a few ships sank on their way up from the Channel Islands carrying stone from the various quarries to build London, and without a really good clue, It's impossible to tie this particular pile to any particular ship.

Some guesses are, Anne Clarke1891, Banshee 1895, Renown 1891. The more you look though, the more you find!

I do have a chap down in Guernsey looking into H Kaines and SL so perhaps he can get me a closer date...

All finds reported to ROW

H Kaines

No markings

granite

Blocks 1906

 Blocks by the Medea...

Not very interesting, just blocks!!

Blocks

That's about as good as it gets!

Seaford Bay Box

 Box in the bay

HMS Jasper

 

1824 Built

1824 sailed for Milford

1824 Starts work Milford

Speed trials

Earl of Clare 1825 passenger

sailings passengers 1826

1826

1826

fire 1836

Taken over by Navy 1837

1848 cancellation of Milford Service

Used as a tug between 1848 & 1854

Hammocks to Liverpool from Plymouth  Feb 1854

Brings hammocks back, seems to be stationed at Plymouth Feb

Crawley takes over, waiting on a gun April Plymouth

Takes out posters advertising for men april 1854

Listed in the Baltic fleet

Jasper blows up

Inquiry on Victory1

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Brighton Inquiry 1

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New boat, (Mr hall engineer on jasper)

 

Baltic fleet

Baltic Fleet

Deck Prism-skylight with Broad Arrow

Broad Arrow & 1844- year cast

Although there is no confirmation from the bell, we are fairly confident this is HMS Jasper due to its unusual engine, the presence of broad arrows, its armament with a cannon, and the area of its loss.

All finds have been reported to ROW

Jasper

Lewes Lass

 I thought we may have been able to locate the stone from the 'Lewes Lass' but after looking into it a bit further it seems it was wrecked onshore rather than the paper seems to suggest, just offshore.

The ship was broken up and used in the construction of two cottages, 1&2 Lewes Lass Cottages, Ninfield Rd, Sidley. The figurehead was perched up on the roof, sadly no longer.

Not sure if the cottages are there any longer but it seems Bexhill Museum has a picture of them.

Nyon

 

HMT Frostaxe

Frostaxe as Atlas

Built at North Shields by Edwards as ATLAS in 1899. More information and pictures here

With only about 6 miles southwest of Newhaven to go on and nothing in that area to investigate, this is likely to remain missing. I have a few very small marks that might have once been worth exploring, and I’ve checked some of them, but nothing appeared on the sounder. 

It was a wooden vessel, now so rotted away that whatever remains is likely buried beneath the sand. However, the provided position could be far off, and the remains might still be waiting to be uncovered or identified.

Royal Navy, HM Trawler Frostaxe - First World War Casualties - A Street Near You

Frank Channor , the first chap in the post above, missed all the goings on in his home town of Lee Common.

The paper reports the Frostaxe as Forsdyke and it being hit by a Swedish ship. The media have never been very good at getting their facts right!