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| 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.
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!
