Local Wrecks
The Shipwreck Museum in Hastings is the interpretive headquarters for the local maritime shore of over nine miles of inter-tidal coastline with a combination of outstanding heritage... Read More »
Amsterdam
The wreck of the Amsterdam is the most notable feature of the beach at Bulverhythe, the tops of its ribs being exposed in the sands and the peaty clay of the prehistoric forest... Read More »
Roman Ship
The Museum owns parts of the oldest seagoing sailing ship ever found in northern Europe. This is also the earliest example of a Romano-Celtic shipbuilding tradition... Read More »
Warship Anne
The creation and early development of the permanent Royal Navy is represented by the warship Anne, preserved in the beach at Pett Level, to the east of Hastings... Read More »
Thomas Lawrence
International free trade in the 19th century is recalled by the wreck of the Danish sailing trading ship Thomas Lawrence, that was sunk in 1862, 7.8 nautical miles off Hastings... Read More »
Primrose
The Primrose is the last of the Rye barges that carried goods on the river rather than at sea, and was abandoned at Rye Harbour in the 1930’s when she was no longer needed... Read More »
Storaa
Dr Peter Marsden, founder of the Shipwreck Museum, applied to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) for the wreck of SS Storaa to be protected as a maritime war grave... Read More »