Ship graveyard

French naval ship graveyard at Landévennec on the river Aulne, to the south of the roadstead of Brest.
Ship graveyard
Wrecks
Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn
Wreck of the Sunbeam, near Port Adelaide, South Australia

A ship graveyard or ship cemetery is a location where the hulls of scrapped ships are left to decay and disintegrate, or left in reserve. Such a practice is now less common due to waste regulations and so some dry docks where ships are broken (to recycle their metal and remove dangerous materials like asbestos) are also known as ship graveyards.

By analogy, the phrase can also refer to a large number of shipwrecks which have accumulated in a single area but not been removed by human agency, instead being left to disintegrate naturally. These can form in places where navigation is difficult or dangerous (such as the Seven Stones, off Cornwall, or Blackpool, on the Irish Sea); or where a large number of ships have been deliberately scuttled together (as with the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow); or where a large number of ships have been sunk in battle (such as Ironbottom Sound, in the pacific).

List of ship graveyards

France

United Kingdom

United States

Africa

Asia

Australia

All states and territories of Australia, except the land-locked Australian Capital Territory, have ships' graveyards

New South Wales:

Northern Territory:

Queensland:

South Australia:[3]

Tasmania:

Victoria:

Western Australia:

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.opacity.us/site55_staten_island_boat_graveyard.htm
  2. ↑ United States Coast Pilot. 3 (43rd ed.). Washington, D.C.: National Ocean Service. 2010. p. 313. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
  3. ↑ (South Australian) ‘Ships Graveyards’ at http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/Heritage/Heritage_places_areas/Ships_graveyards, retrieved 12/06/2012.
  4. ↑ ‘Port Adelaide’ (Ships Graveyards) at http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/Heritage/Heritage_places_areas/Ships_graveyards/Locations/Port_Adelaide, retrieved 13/06/2013.
  5. ↑ Hartell, Robyn; Richards, Nathan (2001). Garden Island, Ships's Graveyard. Heritage SA, Department for Environment and Heritage. pp. 1–6. ISBN 0-7308-5894-4.
  6. ↑ "Port Adelaide (Ships' Graveyards)". South Australian Department of Environment and Heritage. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
  7. ↑ Richards, Nathan (1997). "The History and Archaeology of the Garden Island Ships' Graveyard, North Arm of the Port River, Port Adelaide, South Australia (Honours thesis, BA(Hons), Archaeology)" (PDF). Flinders University of South Australia. pp. 26–30. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
  8. ↑ 'Port Augusta' (Ships graveyards' at http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/Heritage/Heritage_places_and_areas/Ships_graveyards/Location_of_ships%E2%80%99_graveyards/Port_Augusta, retrieved 12/06/2012.
  9. ↑ 'Port Flinders' at http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/Heritage/Heritage_places_and_areas/Ships_graveyards/Location_of_ships%E2%80%99_graveyards/Port_Flinders, retrieved 12/06/2012.
  10. ↑ 'Port Pirie (Ships graveyards) at http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/Heritage/Heritage_places_and_areas/Ships_graveyards/Location_of_ships%E2%80%99_graveyards/Port_Pirie, retrieved 12/06/2012
  11. ↑ ‘Location of ships’ graveyards’ at http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/Heritage/Heritage_places_areas/Ships_graveyards/Locations, retrieved 12/06/2012.
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