HMS Colossus Lord Nelson Shipwreck navy artifacts wooden cheek

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Seller: hornswozzler ✉️ (351) 100%, Location: Isles of Scilly, GB, Ships to: AMERICAS, EUROPE, AU, Item: 323077505350 HMS Colossus Lord Nelson Shipwreck navy artifacts wooden cheek . On sale here is part of a wood side cheek from a small wooden pulley block. It is about an inch thick (25mm) and still retains its original Royal naval Broad Arrow or Board of ordnance mark. This is how it was found on the sea bed but it has been given a coating to preserve it and its been stable like this now for over 15 years. This half of a cheek also still retains part of the hole where the center pin of the pulley wheel used to go and the outer curve denotes the shape and size of the original block. See Image. This artifact was found and salvaged from the wreck site of Man o War Colossus.   What you see in the photograph is the actual item you are bidding on.  I am the author of the Book 'Wreck of Colossus' (a copy of which can also be purchased separately on ebay)  Also- Here is a link to a short video about this wreck. I feature in it so by watching it you will know exactly who it is you are dealing with:- https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=6stQmrivNDQ  Read more about this wreck below. You should be aware that I have raised a vast collection of material from this wreck and much of it had been on display in my local museum here on the Isles of Scilly for 15 years. A second smaller display was also on show in Chichester Museum but it too has recently been returned to me too; hence why Im selling a lot of the material.  I am the author of 4 books- one of those is the limited edition book entitled- 'Wreck of Colossus'  which relates to this same shipwreck and is available on ebay or from me direct at- www.shipwreckbooks.co.uk. I also have numerous items from this wreck on display in my home as well (a B&B on the Isles of Scilly called- 'Colossus' )  Any items I am selling from the wreck on here are simply surplus to requirements..  Solely because the Isles of Scilly Museum changed its displays- consequently I have had many items like this from the wreck handed back and thus put in storage, consequently I have been forced to sell some of it off. All artifacts sold by me genuinely came from the Colossus wreck site and have been declared to the Receiver of Wreck (RoW) by myself at the time of finding them.   I will provide an official droit number issued to me by the Receiver of Wreck.  As I am the diver that was first to discover the stern area of this famous shipwreck way back  in 1999, and subsequently first to declare the site to the Receiver of Wreck in May 2000,- thus the Receiver has a full list of all my finds from that time and indeed ever since.    All my artifacts are absolutely genuine and an individual, personally hand written and signed, letter from me stating this fact will accompany your purchase. (Individually written- not a mere  faceless print off)    I would urge that you keep the letter along with the artifacts, for this is proof of  provenance that the items came from my own personal collection.  Print this listing off too as it too adds to the provenance.  I still dive the wreck to this day-as I found half of it right on my doorstep in May 1999; a full two years before any so called- "proffessional salvors" appeared on the site in 2001 believing they had just found it.  By then, I had already amassed a large collection of material from the site as a direct result of my discovery- and all of it had been logged and dated by the RoW as from that site at that time and it proves that I predated them all to the site by two years.  -Read my book!   See the video above and read this too- The now very famous Colossus was one of Nelsons Warships and she sank here in the Isles of Scilly in 1798. The ship was carrying a vast collection of Greek pottery belonging to Sir William Hamilton when she struck the Southard Well Reef, just south of Samson Island, on December 10th 1798.  She was a 74 gun, 3rd rate, ship of the line. It is recorded in the year 1795, after the battle of Ile De Groix, that Colossus was 'one of the fastest ships in the fleet'  She also served in the inshore squadron off Cadiz in 1797, right alongside Nelson in the Theseus. She was also at the battle of Cape St Vincent in that very  same year. She did not serve at the Nile in 1798.  Neither was she a store ship. She was merely used in convoy duty in 1798 and carried wounded men away from the Nile engagement after arriving too late to fight. When returning to England in November 1798 she was in need of repair but this did not lead to her wrecking. She was not an old ship- as she wrecked just 11 years after her construction in 1787. Had she not sank here at Scilly, they would have easily repaired her and put her straight back into service. However her cable parted in a storm and, Captain Murray, having given her spare sheet anchor to his friend Nelson at Naples, this led to her being wrecked here at Scilly. Therefore it can be argued that Nelson was partly to blame! Her Captain, George Murray, was a very good and close friend of Horatio Nelson. In fact Nelson stated, just before the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, that the position of first Captain aboard HMS Victory would remain empty as he would: "have none but Murray" in that position. The Colossus and her captain are steeped in Nelsonian History. The links to the Great man are numerous. After commandeering her spare anchor, and three of her great guns, Nelson personally over saw the loading of Sir William Hamiltons' Greek vase collection onto the Colossus in Naples.....and even got that wrong! Read my book 'Wreck of Colossus' to learn more about this interesting and famous ship and how I found half of it near my home. Then touch the history you have purchased in absolute certainty that it came from that very same ship above as it was raised from the wreck site by myself.  These artifacts will one day be the only things that remain of this lovely old warship- if it were up to Historic England then these things would be left to rot down on the sea bed. Since they "protected" the site that I found in 1999, I have seen many such items either wasting or eaten away or kelp growth drags them off site and out into the  sandy expanse and lost to oblivion. They call this- 'protecting our heritage' - while their archaeologists frown upon  museum collections like mine, where artefacts have actually been saved for all to see and enjoy or physically examine for purposes of research. So I leave it to you to decide who best 'protects' this otherwise 'lost  heritage'? I personally believe that men in grey suits making decisions behind desks in offices are in no position to decide whats best or criticise those of us who actually operate in the field to witness what occurrs underwater.  Yet anal retentives are even trying to stop me selling my own property to you on here.  They even sent the police round to my home, under false pretenses. I believe it was done in an effort to try to bully me to stop.....even though they know the museum are done with them???  However slowly, everything eventually rots in the sea, yet the Government say they are leaving things down there for future generations! Hmmmm they really havn't thought that one through properly have they??   Ps. Read my personal account of discovering half this wreck in my book 'Wreck of Colossus'  which is also on sale here on ebay.  I have all kinds of things for sale from the wreck. Contact me if you have anything in particular that you are interested in.  Thank you for your interest.  Shipwreck Hunter- Todd Stevens.  (for my email and all my book titles-  www.shipwreckbooks.co.uk
  • Condition: As found on the sea bed
  • Time Period, War: Napoleonic war
  • Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
  • Military Branch: British Royal Navy

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