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  1. Celt

    Some wildlife on the mine head wrecks

    Some wildlife on the wrecks, https://youtu.be/abuMiF3dkfY
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    Minehead wreck, bosun,s locker

    exploring the bosun,s locker. https://youtu.be/eNEM4H1nQ2I
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    Minehead wrecks

    some clips from the mine head wrecks, 10.8 miles, 11,8, 12.9 and 14.9. https://youtu.be/uPdNrrm_s7k
  4. Celt

    Not sure of make of my old 72

    I’ve always thought this was a spiro 72 but could someone please confirm it for me before I paint it, thanks.
  5. Celt

    Thermocline

    Going through the thermocline down to 3 huge boilers on a WW1 wreck vis close to 100 feet https://youtu.be/wtZ6eeGNj3Y
  6. Celt

    lead ingot.

    Anyone ever see an ingot like this, shaped lead half ton weight. found it with a stone cannon ball.
  7. Celt

    Crescent City

    On Jan. 12th 1871 the aptly named 'Crescent City' sailed from New Orleans bound for Liverpool. Among the cargo was 2 ton of silver bullion, half of which was in Mexican silver dollars. After a rough passage she arrived off the Irish coast on the 8th Feb. 1871. Believing she was heading for the...
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    SS Bandon

    The SS Bandon was owned by the Cork Steam Packet Company Ltd. and sailed from Liverpool for Cork on 12th April 1917 under Captain P.F. Kelly with a crew of 32. According to the "History of Port of Cork Steam Navigation 1815-1915" by William J. Barry in the Journal of the Cork Historical and...
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    SS Castlehill

    On the 2nd of March 1941 the steamer Castlehill was en route from Cork to Newport when she ran foul of a German Heinkel bomber He 111. The bomber had over run its target on the south English coast and was low on fuel and needed to dump its bombs in order to return home so they dumped them on the...
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    stern gun

    Lifting the stern gun and porthole from a WW1 wreck
  11. Celt

    Air lift

    Time to give the air lift a rub of paint. Made this to shift a lot of sand on a wreck close to the beach and it really can move sand.
  12. Celt

    Mortar and pestle

    40 years ago my brother and I dug up this 16th century mortar on a very exposed wreck site. I returned this summer and dug up the pestle. Very nice to have both.
  13. Celt

    Waterford caves.

    Doing a bit of exploring yesterday at an entrance close to the Finisk river a tributary of the Blackwater. Unexplored limestone system is thought to extend 12 miles from Cappaquin to Dungarvan. In 1928 Bristol Speleological Society under E. K. Tratman surveyed a site at Kilgreany about 2 miles...
  14. Celt

    Musket ball and Louis X111 (1601-1643) 3 flour de lis coin

    Strancally Castle built by Raymond ( le Gros ) Fitzgerald 1150. Spaniards used it in 1570,s and are said to have disposed of the bodies of neighbouring landlords by dumping them in the murder hole over the river.
  15. Celt

    Spanish galleon The Santa Anna Maria

    photos cannon from the Santa Anna Maria, In 1628 Piet Hein captured the spanish silver fleet including four galleons which he trapped in the Bay of Matanzas. Altogether Hein took 11,509,524 in gold ,silver and trade goods which he placed on board his ships before sailing for Holland with four...
  16. Celt

    salvaging ships propellers

    On some of the larger twin screw steamers the propellers are made up of individual blades bolted to a hub. Having stripped the large nuts we put a shaped charge around the shaft and blew the props off. We were then able to lift the blades separately. Photo of a blade coming over the side.
  17. Celt

    Cunard Liner

    Lloyd Sabaudo Line ordered three new ships for the north atlantic New York route, and one was the Principe de Piemonte launched 20th of Jan. 1907. ( Lloyd Sabaudo plate from the wreck) The Principe de Piemonte was sold to Canadian Northern Steamship Line 1913-14 ( cup from the wreck )and hired...
  18. Celt

    Old bottle

    Working in a dock today I dug up this old bottle. Rowntree's Elect lemonade and Elect Cocoa. For a teetotal Quaker, chocolate drinks were promoted as an alternative to alcohol. Developed in 1887 and marketed as "More than a drink, a food" Rowntree's Elect Cocoa proved very popular.
  19. Celt

    Nice find.

    I found this lamp close to the Bosun,s locker on an unidentified wreck 15 miles southwest of Hook lighthouse in 220 feet. Made by RC Murray & Co. Glasgow. Sometime between 1886 and 1910 Murray,s moved from Carlton Court Bridge St. to Pollokshaws Rd. So this lamp and wreck is post 1910. when...
  20. Celt

    Interesting find.

    1400-1700 lead bird feeder, these were used by sailors on board ship as dice shakers.
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