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The Section for maritime sleuths to help identify relics washed up on Tristan's shores

Featuring items found around the Tristan da Cunha Islands
which provide one of the world's great beachcoming sites!

See also separate pages highlighting :

News of Jack's Brass Fish - Shipwreck relic found on Inaccessible Island in 2007
News of PXXI - Featuring the wreck of 6000 tonne oil platform at Trypot in 2006

Lost Buoy Found
Tristan da Cunha has seen many shipwrecks as well as ship's flotsam and jetsam. So Islanders are always on the lookout for anything unusual at sea or along the island's beaches.
On 4th May, Head of Communications Andy Repetto spotted what looked like a wrecked life boat at Boatharbour Bay Point as viewed from The Patches. Andy informed Administrator David Morley who informed Head of Search and Rescue Conrad Glass. Conrad set off with Neil Swain and Leon Glass to check it out.

On arrival the object was found to be an orange mooring buoy, some 10 metres long, 2.5 metres high and at one end a large broken shackle was still attached. As there was a mark 50 T, perhaps the buoy weighs 50 tonnes? As there is little sign of rust or barnacles it is likely that it has been lost recently.

Does anyone want it back?

 

 

Pictures from Conrad Glass
show the buoy above taken from the cliff above and below on the foreshore.
The buoy nestled on rocks at the point south of Boatharbour Bay with Hillpiece and the Hillpiece Hardies behind.
Neil and Leon are pictured by the buoy below.
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