Video of 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 transferware 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!
All finds reported to ROW
*Upon closer inspection, the bottle indeed had a mark on it, providing a valuable clue that dates the wreck to somewhere between 1817 and 1834. The press cutting is from 1829. However, I have been unable to uncover any additional information about this particular brig. More clues are definitely needed!
** I think Trinty house marked this wreck a few weeks later and the position given puts It further West so possibly one of our other 'Unknown' wrecks closer to Beachy Head and not Blobby.
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| Possibility. 1829 |
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| H Kaines |
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| Granite |
