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Location:Isles of Scilly, GB,
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Item:323077505350HMS 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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