c7c0dae30f7f5484cb311d0a1724dc83 English dataset Archaeology Data Service help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk pointOfContact 2022-07-22 MEDIN Discovery metadata standard 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700 HMS Colossus Wrecking Project 2017 2018-11-20 publication COLL_ID_1003128 In December 1798 HMS Colossus, a 74 gun warship built in 1787 at Gravesend, was on her way home to England with wounded from the Battle of the Nile and with cargo, including part of Sir William Hamilton’s second collection of Greek pottery. She was sheltering from a gale in St Mary’s Roads, Isles of Scilly, when the anchor cable parted and she was driven aground to the south of Samson. All but one member of the crew were taken off safely before Colossus turned onto her beam ends and proceeded to break up. To date, two main areas of wreckage have been identified, the bow site and the stern site. In 1975 part of the wreck (probably the bow) was designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act. This designation was revoked in 1984. The current site, the stern, was designated in 2001. Fieldwork was undertaken by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Maritime Archaeology Society (CISMAS) for two weeks in May 2017. Large areas of the seabed around the stern site were searched in detail in order to better understand the events leading to the present disposition of wreck material on the seabed. This was mainly prompted by the proposal of a new wrecking theory by CISMAS in 2015. This project revisits the loss of the ship, the historic salvage of the wreck and the rediscovery of the site and subsequent excavation by Roland Morris in the 1970s. The evolution of our understanding of how and where Colossus was wrecked is examined in some detail. This is followed by an explanation of the new wrecking theory - and how the results of this year’s survey accord with it. Kevin Kamidge Historic England dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk originator Archaeology Data Service help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Documents Geographic Information System Image Movie Marine Environmental Data and Information Network NDGO0005 Buildings Protected sites GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-01-06 revision Man-made structures Marine archaeology Fish aggregating device usage statistics SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary 2009-11-16 revision https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/advice/termsOfUseAndAccess otherRestrictions https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/advice/termsOfUseAndAccess English structure environment SeaDataNet vertical extent keywords 2010-01-01 revision inapplicable -6.3491 -6.3377 49.9202 49.9276 2018-03-01 2018-04-30 Archaeology Data Service help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk distributor https://doi.org/10.5284/1050094 A link to the web service or dataset https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/ A link to the general host site dataset This dataset was collected by Kevin Kamidge and provided to the Archaeology Data Service for long term archive and management.