Monday, October 6, 2025

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