Eddie Kirkpatricks Diving and Family Pages
Searching for Wrecks

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Mike Oxlade and myself have teamed up to locate a wreck that sank off the East Coast in 1883, carrying a general cargo from Germany to Grimsby.
In the cargo was Dresdon China plates etc plus toys (1883)
We did the research and found out that British Rail owned the wreck and the cargo (they were not aware that they owned the wreck)we purchased the rights to the wreck and the cargo.
It is now our job to locate the present position of the sinking.

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We teamed up with a business man who owned a 36ft boat laid up in Bridlington harbour.
He supplied the boat and the airlift equipment to suck the sand and and silt out of the wreck we thought was the wreck we were searching for, but later found that it was not the wreck (1903 shell found)

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After a day out looking for the wreck



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We thought we had located the wreck 9 miles east of Bridlington harbour.
The position was about the same as the last reported sinking of the ship plus the measurements of the length and breadth were the same.
But unfortunatly we found a shell that was dated 1903 (our ship sunk in 1883)



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We were asked to search a local pond for the remains of guns etc
Mike Oxlades son Neil, and Karl Stephenson undertook the diving.
Nothing was found.

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Coming in after a dive.





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Mike Oxlade, Karl Stephenson purchased this RIB to search for our wreck.


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Ready to dive on a wreck.


At the present time of creating this web page November 2000, we intend to carry on searching for our wreck (waiting for summer 2001)