Plymouth Breakwater Wrecks

Filed under: Plymouth And Devon Wrecks    Written by:Peter Mitchell.

Four million tons of rock and thirty years in the making, Plymouth’s free standing Breakwater, the first of its kind was one of the greatest engineering feats of the age, and was vital in maintaining Britain’s sea power at a time when Napoleon’s army rampaged allover Europe. Without its shelter the great anchorage of Plymouth Sound could never have supported the Royal Navy in its blockade against the French ports, without which the final victory at sea would have been impossible.

Sunset over the Breakwater

Throughout two World Wars Plymouth forged a long and successful partnership with the Royal Navy which still exists today and is the bedrock of the prosperity that the city now enjoys. None of this could have happened without the Plymouth Breakwater. The struggle to build it in the teeth of fierce storms and the ever present threat of a French invasion. the ships that were wrecked because of it, and the underwater life that now depends upon it.

• The Plymouth Breakwater
• Abelard
• Yvonne
• The Old Lady, the Barquentine and the Ghost
• Lancaster Bomber
• Hopper Barge 42
• U.S.Navy L.S.T. 493

All these tales and more are interwoven in this fascinating video to tell what came to be known as “The Great National Undertaking”.

 

Other Submerged posts of interest:

• The Plymouth Breakwater: “The Great National Undertaking”
• Emilia
• L.S.T.493
• Abelard
• Lancaster Bomber

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