shipwreck

This is the fourth and final report covering four of the seven abandoned whaling stations on the UK dependency of South Georgia in the Southern Ocean, 8,000 miles from Britain. This time it is the whaling station in Prince Olav Harbour. I’ve included a map in this report so that the relative...

History The Zeus was originally flying the flag of Antigua and Barbados, when she was bought by a German shipping company and renamed RMS Mülheim in 1999. She was a 295 foot steel cargo ship, carrying plastic car parts from Ireland to Germany, when disaster struck as she rounded Land's End on...

The history On the 22nd of March 2003 the RMS Mulheim cargo ship ran aground in Cornwall England close to Lands End. The crew were all winched to safety and no one was seriously hurt. Most of the cargo was removed but it was not possible to save the ship. It was abandoned and a few months later...