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[1850x1090] HMS Warspite lays partially scrapped a year after running aground at Prussia Cove - 1948. This slide was slightly damaged.
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[1850x1090] HMS Warspite lays partially scrapped a year after running aground at Prussia Cove - 1948. This slide was slightly damaged.

u/Leroy_was_here — 1 day ago
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British battleships HMS Rodney, HMS Revenge, and HMS Nelson at Inverkeithing, Scotland, May 1949 [3130x1280]

u/Leroy_was_here — 10 days ago
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“R/V Arctic Discoverer” Left To Rot

Say hello to the R/V Arctic Discoverer. Back in 1958 the Canadians built a sturdy research trawler called the A.T. Cameron. After years of fisheries work she was sold off, renamed Arctic Ranger, and eventually bought by treasure hunter Tommy Thompson, who turned her into the Arctic Discoverer. In 1988 that ship and its robot sub Nemo found the famous “Ship of Gold”, the SS Central America, which went down in an 1857 hurricane packed with California gold. They hauled up a fortune, after that lawsuits about who owned the gold and money troubles followed, and the old vessel finally ended up abandoned and rusting away in Florida after being auctioned off cheap in 2013. This vessel, in my opinion, should be preserved as it has such a great history. Now it sits outside of Jacksonville at a secure scrap yard.

Check out more abandoned photography on my instagram @noahdov! Thanks for your time!

u/Noahdov — 10 days ago