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29 August 2010 The tragedy of SS Greenawn

The SS Greenawn left London on her fateful final voyage in March 1941 bound for the Scottish port of Invergordon with a cargo of cement in bags. She was last seen passing Montrose and then simply disappeared. There was no distress call, no survivors or wreckage ever found. At a subsequent Admiralty Board of Enquiry she was listed as "Missing - presumed bombed". And that is how she remains listed to this day.

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22 August 2010 SS Cushendall

We pitched up at Stonehaven harbour today expecting to have to call off the planned dive 5 miles out due to marginal sea conditions. Offshore we could see white crests breaking atop a large swell. Trust in the forecast I thought. This is as bad as it will be - it can only get better....

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The glorious Sound of Mull, the Rondo, SS Hispania, SS Thesis & SS Shuna

Awesome weekend's diving just been had in the Sound of Mull - the greatest air diving location in Scotland outside of Scapa Flow. After a long period diving trimix only it was faintly nostalgic to be back diving on air on the fantastic wrecks there.

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1 August 2010 MS Taurus

We flashed out from Gourdon in Stonehaven Diver last night to catch the 2000hrs slack water on the MS Taurus - perhaps one of the most beautiful wrecks on this coast, a sleek, 4000 ton cargo liner sunk in an air attack whilst passing down the east coast of Scotland in convoy during WW II.

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Survivors Forum

Rod and FlagResearching, diving and writing about shipwrecks has brought me a fair amount of contact from survivors of some of the wrecks I have written about - as well as from relatives of those who perished in the sinking or who survived but have now passed away. To date I have dealt with this in an ad hoc way as and when contact has been made with me.

Although there are Survivor's Forums for a number of well known Royal Navy vessels there has to the best of my knowledge never been a focal point where Survivors and Relatives of other vessels can come together to share information and make contact. Despite its faults, the internet has proved to be a wonderful tool for this sort of thing.

To give some structure to this and provide such a focal point I have created a Survivor's & Relatives Forum on this site. After following the registration process you can then start posting about ships of interest and start making contact. I truly hope that this will bring people together whose paths would never otherwise have crossed.

Click on the "FORUM" button on either the left or top menus of the site to access.

 
April 2010

The dive season has started and up in Scapa Flow the new bound sets of 7 A4 wreck laminates are selling well to both divers and tourists interested in Orkney’s maritime history.Scapa Scuba, The Red Shed, Stromness are the main local distributors.

 
24th April 2010

Rod’s new book The Darkness Below has now been submitted to Mainstream Publishing for consideration. Publication date to be advised.

 
Future Products

Complimentary set of 6 A4 laminates of the famous Sound of Mull & west coast wrecks SS Hispania, SS Shuna, SS Thesis, Rondo, Breda and HMS Port Napier is presently under design. To be launched summer 2010. Anticipated RRP £15 per set