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Post by 4wd on Oct 15, 2014 9:30:10 GMT
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Post by wr on Nov 8, 2014 23:54:42 GMT
Those pikeys just can't leave anything alone!
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Post by quadbod on Nov 19, 2014 18:07:45 GMT
Although spending a lot of time in North Norfolk in my earlier years, I have never actually seen Hunstanton cliffs for myself and had already earmarked them for a visit next year so these pictures were particularly interesting to me. There is quite a lot of info around and it seems that most of the ship was actually removed for salvage several years ago so the pictures are really a little misleading - still worth a look though More info @ www.cafg.net/docs/reports/SheratonMast.pdfThe Steam Trawler Sheraton was built in 1907 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell of Beverley, as a steam powered trawler. Subsequently, she and was used for boom defence work during WWI and as a patrol vessel in WWII, for which she was fitted with a 6 pounder gun. At the end of her working life, The Sheraton was stripped of its valuable components and moored off Brest Sand in The Wash to be used for target practice. During a gale in 1947 she broke free of her mooring and drifted onto the beach at Hunstanton on the north coast of East Anglia. Much of the Sheraton was salvaged but the bottom of the hull remains on the beach in the intertidal zone. The Sheraton represents a historic phase in deep water trawler construction as metal replaced timber. |
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Post by quadbod on Mar 31, 2015 13:30:26 GMT
Some pictures of the Sheraton taken today:  |
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Post by quadbod on Mar 31, 2015 13:31:01 GMT
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Post by quadbod on Mar 31, 2015 13:31:40 GMT
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Post by quadbod on Mar 31, 2015 13:32:23 GMT
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Post by quadbod on Mar 31, 2015 13:41:41 GMT
I'm not sure why some of these pics open up on the 'huh' but if you right click & open image in new tab they seem to right themselves.....
Unfortunately the sun needed another hour or so before it really shone on the cliffs and the pics were only taken with the camera on my phone but I don't think they came out too badly..... on our retreat from the VERY windy beach, we just managed to get to shelter behind a vacant ice cream kiosk before the hailstorm really hit the shore - Currently we are sheltering in the b&b...... with a nice sea view.
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Post by 4wd on Mar 31, 2015 16:32:47 GMT
Quite a big cliff fall there too - must have been this past winter or even very recently indeed?
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Post by quadbod on Mar 31, 2015 19:00:45 GMT
I would assume so but difficult to tell. I guess this coastline is relatively sheltered as it faces West - If you look at the original picture, in 1947, the cliffs don't look as if they are much further back.
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Post by rgsp on Apr 2, 2015 14:03:49 GMT
I used to get taken to that beach fairly often in the early 1950s, and I'm pretty sure I can remember the wreck before most of the upper steel was removed, but it may have been another vessel.
The red bits of the cliff are iron-containing limestone - almost good enough to consider as a source of iron ore, but not quite. Not that different to some of the stone much closer to 4WD.
However, the point is that the Huns'ton stone is fairly hard, and only erodes rather slowly, and has only receded a few feet since 1947, and even then not everywhere.
The upper white stone is pretty well chalk, and dissolves relatively quickly: I'd guess a fall of that size would still be visible 5 - 10 years later all the same. The "boulders" on the foreshore will be the red stuff, and they get covered with barnacles and other sea-life and thus preserve themselves for decades if not centuries.
On the theme of useless and unwanted facts, P G Wodehouse spent a lot of time, and wrote a bit, at Old Hunstanton Hall, which is a few hundred yards inland from the point of the photographs
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Post by quadbod on Apr 28, 2015 7:02:35 GMT
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