Earthbound ship and submarine
Archaeologists at the University of Winchester have announced that they are going to excavate a First World War submarine, but not under the sea as you might expect – this long-lost submarine is believed to be buried beneath Dartmouth’s Coronation Park.
Simon Roffey, Reader in Archaeology, and David Ashby, who manages the university’s Soil Laboratory, intend to use ground-penetrating radar to help pinpoint the exact location of HMS E52, which was launched in 1917, saw brief service in the First World War, and was sent to the breakers’ yard at Coombe Mud in 1921.
As the name suggests, Coombe Mud was once a tidal creek, where the fishing community’s boats moored, until the town council bought the mudflats and dumped thousands of tons of soil on them to create the park, which opened in 1937 to mark the coronation of King George VI.
Monumental voyages