Ship graveyard

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 Large ships are scrapped inAlang,
Sea); or where a large number of ships have been deliberately scuttled together (as India
with the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow); or where a large number of ships
have been sunk in battle (such asIronbottom Sound, in the Pacific).

Contents
List of ship graveyards
France
United Kingdom
United States Staten Island boat graveyardin 1973
Africa
Asia
Australia
See also
References
External links

List of ship graveyards

Shipwrecks in Camaret-sur-Mer
France
Guilvinec-Lechiagat
On the River Rance
Magouër (Plouhinec, Morbihan)
Plouhinec, Finistère
Landévennec

United Kingdom
The River Tamar downstream of the Saltash Bridge used to be used as
a mooring site for mothballed vessels, including submarines, of the French navy graveyard at
Royal Navy. These have now all been removed. Landévennec near Brest
Portsmouth Harbour hosts a number of ex Royal Navy vessels, awaiting
removal for scrapping.
 Forton Lake in Gosport, near Portsmouth, is host to approximately thirty
vessels, several of which saw action in theSecond World War.

United States
The US Navy "phantom fleet" at Suisun Bay, to the north of San
Francisco Bay
Witte's Marine Salvage - theStaten Island boat graveyard.[1]
Bikini Atoll was designated as a ship graveyard for the U.S. Pacific fleet; Boat cemetery in Bénodet
it later became known as a nuclear testing facility
.
Mallows Bay, Maryland.[2]
Green Jacket Shoal, Rhode Island

Africa
Wrecks all along the peninsular coast atNouadhibou

Asia
Several locations near theAral Sea
The ship-breaking yards ofAlang (India), Chittagong (Bangladesh), and Gadani Beach (Pakistan)

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

New South Wales:

Stockton Breakwater (Newcastle)

Homebush Bay Ships' Graveyard (Sydney)
Pindimar Bay Ships' Graveyard/The Duckhole (Myall Lakes)
Northern Territory:

Darwin Harbour East Arm

Queensland:

Bishop Island Ships' Graveyard (Brisbane)

Tangalooma Ships' Graveyard (Moreton Island)
The Bulwer Wrecks (Moreton Island)
Curtin Artificial Reef
South Australia:[3]

Port Adelaide and environs - sites at Mutton Cove, Jervois Basin,Garden Island, Angas Inlet and Broad
Creek.[4][5][6][7]

Port Augusta[8]
Port Flinders[9]
Port Pirie[10]
Planned scuttling sites nearArdrossan, Cowell, Glenelg, Goat Island, Kangaroo Island, Port Noarlunga, Port
Stanvac, Stenhouse Bay, Whyalla and Yankalilla Bay.[11]
Tasmania:

Little Betsey Island Ships' Graveyard (Hobart)

East Risdon Ships' Graveyard (Hobart)
 Strahan Ships' Graveyard (Strahan)
Tamar Island Ships' Graveyard (Launceston)
Victoria:

Barwon Heads Ships' Graveyard (Port Phillip Bay)

Western Australia:

Careening Bay Ships' Graveyard

Rottnest Island Ships' Graveyard(off Rottnest Island)
Jervoise Bay Ships' Graveyard
Albany Ships' Graveyard (Albany)

See also
Ghost ship
Derelict (maritime)
Marine debris
Marine pollution
Shipbreaking

References
1. http://www.opacity.us/site55_staten_island_boat_graveyard.htm
2. United States Coast Pilot(http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/nsd/coastpilot_w.php?book=3). 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/Loc
ations/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)"(http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/Heritage/Heritage_places_areas/Ships_grav
eyards/Locations/Port_Adelaide). 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)"(http://www.flinders.edu.au/ehl/f
ms/archaeology_files/dig_library/theses/NathanRichards1997.pdf)(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_graveyard
s/Location_of_ships%E2%80%99_
retrieved 12/06/2012.
9. 'Port Flinders' at
http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/Heritage/Heritage_places_and_areas/Ships_graveyard
s/Location_of_ships%E2%80%99_
retrieved 12/06/2012.
10. 'Port Pirie (Ships graveyards) at
http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/Heritage/Heritage_places_and_areas/Ships_graveyard
s/Location_of_ships%E2%80%99_
retrieved 12/06/2012
11. ‘Location of ships’ graveyards’ at
http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/Heritage/Heritage_places_areas/Ships_graveyards/Loc
ations, retrieved
12/06/2012.
External links
Gadani Beach
(in French) Ship graveyards
(in French) Ship graveyard on the Rance
(in French) Ship graveyard at the port of Guilvinec-Lechiagat
(in French) Ship graveyard at Magouër
Google maps view of ships graveyard

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