Ghost Ships: Exploring Britain's Forgotten Shipwrecks

Wonderful video. I grew up around Dartmouth & Brixham and I was lucky enough to have met Agatha Christie on a few occasions as she was one of our schools honorary governess’s and took classes up to the house in the Summer months to have Tea on the lawn. Great memories. Another link is my Grandfather worked at Noss marina opposite Old mill creek where they built those paddle steamers. And lastly my Father can remember the D-Day preparations and the ships taking the American troops to Utah beach in Normandy. Apparently he did very well from those young men’s generosity in candy! Thank you.

[@Grandmotherof3]

A nice relaxing informative video!

[@StuBar2]

So glad I came across your channel. Fascinating history of our past, plus amazing footage!

[@fayecook9171]

Loved so much about the different boats especially the D day ribs

[@geetee7154]

Superb video, the perfect antidote for a stressful day, a new subscriber here 👍

[@MarkHalligan]

Great video, good commentary, and nice drone videography too.

[@tikkathreebarrels]

What a great programme and for me highly evocative. In about 1970 I visited Totnes, for the only time in my life, as part of an A level geography field trip for a day. We saw the river, we visited a boat shed in which small boats were being built in the new wonder material of glass reinforced plastic or fibreglass and we connected economic geography with physical geography. Tourists if you like and we returned home to Lancashire. I started watching this programme without having read the notes, just attracted by the "Ghost Ships" headline. You hadn't spoken at this stage but staring at the opening footage of a calm river set in a valley with buildings adjacent I found myself thinking "Is this Totnes"?

[@Milkybar3320011]

Very professional, BBC quality, loved it.

[@harbourdogNL]

I really have a thing for these forgotten and decaying hulks...one thinks of all the labour that went into their construction, the labour and lives lived by their crew, the pride they would all have had in their vessel, however small. As an ex-sailor I loved all my ships. Some of those long gone crew would be dismayed to see what's become of their ship, but others would smile and say "Ah, look, there's a bit of the old girl left yet."

[@caroleminke6116]

Agatha Christie had an estate on the Dart called Greenway now a historic home & owned the boathouse where Sir Francis Drake sailed his ship from during the Elizabethan Age

[@hillbillyfromtheswamp6223]

Ohh bull honky. Your living in fairy land

[@EngineEngineer]

Which is exactly what we are told in this documentary

[@Dave5843-d9m]

Agatha Christie’s birthplace was demolished by Torquay council to build a collection of low cost housing. People have to live but Torquay is full of large old houses ripe for redevelopment. Oh no! It had to be this one.

[@Dave5843-d9m]

Check out the fitting wooden Brixham trawler sat on the bottom in the Exeter Canal.

[@LeighPankhurst]

That was one of the best things I've seen on KZbin!

[@simonhjc]

“Sometimes its ok to feel history”. Oh so true. I live in thebkue mtns west of Sydney but our story is one of Iteland and England. I visited for the first time in 2002. I spent time in Shetland with scientists and was blown away with the Viking history. Frankly ive never felt so “connected”

[@jackpayne4658]

I grew up in Poole, on the Dorset coast. Poole Harbour is large, with many shallow bays and creeks. As a child, I recall seeing many old boats, large and small, in various stages of decay. I found these wrecks gloomy and quite frightening - and still do, to some extent. I can see how they might look charming and romantic, but they still make me shudder.

[@MICKEY1964able]

thank you very interesting love old ship wrecks

[@Galactic-Jack1978]

The UK has such a lot of historical artifacts. Here in South Africa it's cut up and recycled for lack of a better term to describe how things are stripped bit by bit till they are no more. I didn't enjoy history when it was fed to me at school. I gulped it down except for WW2 which I found interesting. Then COVID hits and I dive into the forgotten defenses of Cape town and I discover my love for history.

[@watersrising8044]

Nicely done

[@alcom3101]

Beau Travail comme d'habitude🔬🎬🛠🍀🔥🙏🌌☝

[@macethe20vtace]

Great video, always thought the LCTs just dried out on the hard stands with the outgoing tide. There's a couple amazing LCT wrecks in Poole harbour still there today

[@stephenphillips8956]

Does anyone else find old sunken boats really creepy? I’d like to know whether I have a weird but known phobia or if I’m just weird.

[@markstern8699]

Yes, sunken ships creep me out too

[@stevelansdowne]

Great video!

[@adriaanboogaard8571]

Wonderful program. Yes there are bits of ships in other things. Old-time recycling. Dont forget, Barns. One of the ships credited for delivering Pilgrims to the U.S. has timbers in a U.K. Barn. When farmers can get surplus they can make due with and build just about anything out of what other's call Junk. It never seices to amaze

[@СергійЛагутенко-ю4ч]

Thank you.

[@Drenov]

The video is so painfully slow, I just wanted to see the boats.

[@RIPPERTON]

Its actually a Paddle Board video.

[@Drenov]

@@RIPPERTON In that case it was clickbait to post that it was about wrecks. How many people want to watch someone else paddling? It would be like me sharing my holiday photos.

[@davidbarnsley8486]

Only 199 I thought you were going to say 199 000 they are everywhere and then you have all those boats in swamp marinas That most have been left for dead Great little doco 👍👍🇦🇺

[@southeastcoastalphotography]

People always complain about the volume of the music in documentaries on KZbin and I’ve never really understood the complaints and while this video doesn’t play the music to loud while he’s talking but the type of music in this video just don’t seem to fit the content.

[@markingledow9495]

sadly the answer to your final question might be 'thousands of years' in the case of the generation of GRP boats constructed since the 1960's and now at risk of being abandoned in the 'nooks and crannies' around our coastline....

[@SimonWallwork]

Love your little boat, but the Victorians didn't build anything in Metres!

[@pod9538]

I liked it the vid. Cool 👍 😎

[@bigben1986]

How do they just let things rot away in that nasty mud and seaweed!!!!!! ????

[@jamesgraham6122]

I think you'll find that Dittisham is pronounced 'Ditsum'.. way back in the 70s during my time as a yacht delivery skipper, I would occasionally take refuge at that point, having dropped the anchor I'd look up at that village and think.. 'One day I'll live there'.. unfortunately it didn't happen... or maybe I should say, 'It hasn't happened yet :>)'

[@stewartmarshall5853]

So 21st century victorians enjoying a oatmeal latte more likely a cup of tea served in a china cup and a bun.

[@lenabreijer1311]

Well that was nice until the awful music destroyed the whole thing at 12 minutes.

[@bazra19]

Get rid of that ghastly music. I might watch it. Yes you can hear Birds and seals all we hear is crap music.

[@СергійЛагутенко-ю4ч]

Thank you.