Intrigued by this photo on the BBC website, I did some Googling.
More than fifty ships lie wrecked in the Sound of Islay in the Inner Hebrides, and the best known - perhaps because she's been the most visible - seems to be this one, the Fleetwood registered trawler Wyre Majestic.
Built in 1958, she's been lying on the rocks since 1974. But as these pictures show, we're losing her.
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Yes, initially slowly but now faster and faster she's going. It took a long time initially to break up, but I think over the last few years it has accelerated.
I'll try to take another picture next time I'm on Islay and post a follow up.
Thanks, Armin. Alas, she does look as if there'll soon be nothing to see.
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