Fortean Flotsam: Odd Objects Washed Ashore

[RaM]

People see buoys out in a harbor or river and don't realize how big and substantial they are.

 

[Erinaceus]

People see buoys out in a harbor or river and don't realize how big and substantial they are.

The mooring buoy for the Hythe ranges safety vessel broke loose in a storm a while ago and washed up on the beach. I was surprised at the size of it.

 

[maximus otter]

A ghostly shipwreck has emerged in Newfoundland​

The massive, overturned hull of a seemingly ancient ship has appeared without warning along the southwestern tip of Newfoundland, dazzling nearby residents eager to know who may have been aboard and how it met its fate.

As post-tropical storm Fiona tore through the area on Sept. 24, 2022, destroying about 100 homes and pounding away shorelines, it churned up the sand along Cape Ray Beach, said Neil Burgess, president of the Shipwreck Preservation Society of Newfoundland and Labrador.

If the ship was buried, Fiona may have dislodged it from its sandy grave, and each subsequent storm would have loosened it further, Burgess said. There were large swells there last week, and they may have finally unearthed the wreck enough to be discovered by someone out hunting birds.

Burgess said he figures the ship was built in the 1800s.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/ghostly-shipwreck-cape-ray-1.7097333

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[maximus otter]

'Incredible' old shipwreck found on Orkney beach​

A large section of a well-preserved shipwreck thought to be hundreds of years old has washed ashore on a beach in Orkney.

The timbers are held together with large wooden pegs in a style understood to have been commonly used as far back as the 16th Century.

Locals on the island of Sanday believe it may have been released from the seabed by recent violent winter storms.

It is hoped the timber can be removed from the beach to be preserved, and that further investigation will reveal more about the ship.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg447y13nzo

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[maximus otter]

Piece of World War II-Era Drone Plane Washes Up on Massachusetts Beach

A piece of World War 2 history has washed ashore in Massachusetts.

According to a statement shared by the Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS) on Wednesday, April 10, a piece of a World War II-era drone plane was found last week.

Once it was moved to a safe location, “park historian Bill Burke examined the object and determined that it was in fact the fuselage of a RCAT (Remote Control Aerial Target).”

It has been decades since the part was last used to assist with target practice in the 1940s and 1950s — most notably for anti-aircraft training off Marconi at Camp Wellfleet, a former U.S. military training camp.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/piece-world-war-ii-era-020132747.html

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[Yithian]

This book on the Great Lego Spill of '97 (and beachcombing more generally) was published last month and is supposed to be a nice book to browse over tea.

Story of the Spill from @EnolaGaia in two posts here: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/fortean-lego.59953/page-2#post-2069632

I don't have a copy, but it's attractively presented.

Previews copied from here:
https://www.amazon.com/Adrift/dp/1913491196

 

[RaM]

A few years back we were seeing lots of white objects washed up,
turned out to be white painted cucumbers, I kid you not, they had
been used to check on flow and currents in the area and cucumbers
were used as they floated and bio degraded so were ideal and cheap.