eaw019742 ENGLAND (1948). A wreck on the Duddon Sands (possibly the Anastasi), Walney Island, from the west, 1948. This image has been produced from a print.

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Title [EAW019742] A wreck on the Duddon Sands (possibly the Anastasi), Walney Island, from the west, 1948. This image has been produced from a print.
Reference EAW019742
Date 15-October-1948
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Place name WALNEY ISLAND
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 316361, 473614
Longitude / Latitude -3.2807731039886, 54.15135459658
National Grid Reference SD164736

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From press reports and photo (attached) I am fairly sure that the ship is the coaster Anastasi which foundered on Christmas Day 1946, while on her way from Barrow to N Ireland. The ship was built as the J&J Monks by Scotts at Bowling (on the River Clyde) in 1909. The remains are said to be still visible at low tide. CAUTION - tides and sandbanks!!

ewnmcg
Thursday 4th of September 2014 08:39:15 PM
Scarth Channel

Class31
Sunday 31st of August 2014 11:04:11 AM
Sandscale Haws now a Nature Reserve

Class31
Sunday 31st of August 2014 11:03:44 AM

Class31
Sunday 31st of August 2014 10:53:35 AM

User Comment Contributions

Your comments and extra evidence are really useful, thank you. We'll update the catalogue and post the new record here in due course.



Yours, Katy

Britain from Above Cataloguing Team Leader

Katy Whitaker
Friday 26th of September 2014 02:57:18 PM
The attached press cutting gives further info' and helps confirm - I think - that the ship is indeed the coaster Anastasi.

ewnmcg
Friday 5th of September 2014 07:38:44 AM
I am prepared to suggest that the wreck is on the Duddon Sands just north of Walney Island near Barrow in Furness.

Class31
Sunday 31st of August 2014 09:45:01 AM
EAW019740 EAW019741 and EAW019742 are all taken at the the same location on 15th October 1948

Class31
Sunday 31st of August 2014 09:39:50 AM