SWMAG Report - Salcombe Cannon Site

Dartmouth Cannon Project (The Late Neville Oldham)

This report looks at the history of Dartmouth in order to try and establish where these cannons came from. During our diving and research, we did discover that there has been a lot of shipping activity in the area of Kingswear Castle and this has given us some clues...

HMS Venerable 1804

HMS Venerable was launched at Perry’s yard in Blackwall on 19th April 1784. It took approximately 4000 mature oak trees to build her over a two year period at a cost of approximately £3800. She was 170 ft long with a beam of 47 ft and weighed over 1650 tons. Many...

Tea Clipper Gossamer 1868

The picture above right is of the ‘Sovereign of the Seas’. This was very similar to the ‘Gossamer’, being built as a composite with wood and steel in the mid 1800’s. The Gossamer was a China Tea Clipper of 735 Tons with a length of 181 ft and breadth of 30 ft. On her...

SS Aurania

SS Aurania (pictured above) was an ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line. She was built in 1916 at Wallsend and measured 13,936 gross tons. She was propelled by two steam engines powered from four boilers and had a speed of 15kts. The ship was built by Swan Hunter...

Salcombe Cannon Site

This is a protected wreck site off West Prawle, Devon in position 50 12 41.76N 03 44 40.74W There is a 300m exclusion zone This site at Salcombe contains the remains of a 17th century armed trading ship whose origin has not been identified. The finds on the site are...

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