WRECKS OF THE SCILLY ISLES

[@studebaker4217]

Just back from my first visit to Scilly, sea kayaking. Very interesting film, many thanks.

[@Saintbirinus]

Glad you liked it.

[@jonnypardoe2072]

Great video. Just reading ‘Deep Sea Treasure’ by Mark Williams and he gives a good account of the wrecking of the ‘Association’ so this was very helpful to give more context. Thank you!

[@Saintbirinus]

Thank you very much for your comment. It is very good to know that people like the video and find it interesting and useful.

[@TravellingTorunn]

Thank you! This was a really good and interesting video. I have been to the Scillies a couple of times, and will remember this information for future visits 🙂

[@Saintbirinus]

Thank you for your kind comment. I am very glad you enjoyed the video.

[@stuartskilton8928]

thank you

[@MrJohnestall]

I really enjoyed your great film , thank you .

[@Saintbirinus]

Thank you for your kind and encouraging comment. If you have not visited the Scillies I hope my little film will encourage you to do so.

[@MonTube2006]

...just be cautious of those rocks. Don't lose track of them 🙏

[@peterswatton7400]

Most enjoyable. As is well known, Harrison died without the reward for his work.

[@Xyno1100]

good video bro make more for us !

[@vitaminanime]

"We pray to thee, not for wrecks to happen, but if wrecks must happen, Thou wilt guide them onto the rocks of the Scillies, for the benefit of the poore folk"

[@christopherthewreckerthats2295]

Love what you put down from a reincarnated wrecker aka from the pissed wrecker

[@manuelvivaan3658]

Instablaster.

[@johnsurrey7426]

I heard a local adaptation of this: ‘Dear Lord, let there not be shipwrecks; but if there be shipwrecks, let them be on Bryher.’

[@martinphilip8998]

I have a piece of eight from the Association and one from the Hollandia. I bought them about 50 years ago.

[@Saintbirinus]

I always think such coins are a beautiful connection with the past. Well worth having.

[@martinphilip8998]

@@Saintbirinus I’ve used them in my third grade class to teach them what a "clip joint" was. One piece has milling and the other if fairly crude. Unscrupulous merchants would trim silver and give you bad change. I’m always amazed how much historians learn when a cache of coins is discovered.

[@ajwalou-nack2343]

When the Torry sank the oil could be sliced off the beach at wine cove at Martin's with an axe . It was still there when that helicopter crashed in the 80s . I was friendly with several of the islanders . They spoke of many things that happened on the islands . It's a lovely place but it's expensive to live and holiday there . I used to drive an old transit van that had no brakes no tax and no MOT . Those where the days when all summer it hardly rained . Come winter is another story . I dream of going back to live there but I need regular hospital visits and the such it would be very difficult.

[@Saintbirinus]

Thank you for your interesting comment. I feel very sad for you that for medical reasons, it is no loner possible for you to be in that beautiful place. You must have many golden memories.

[@ajwalou-nack2343]

@@Saintbirinus . It's not so much the hospital stuff more the rich people and the dutchy that own the islands . I couldn't afford a house in 1970 when they where under 3 grand so I stand no chance when they are half a million . The council has put rules who can buy a place now which counts me out as I'm not a key worker being a carpenter and stone mason .

[@I.have.an.std.]

Nice video there 👌🏻👍

[@Saintbirinus]

Thanks for your comment.

[@christopherthewreckerthats2295]

Haha a bout time some one has mentioned the wreckers. What a good life it was beening a wrecker I would do it all again got shot on the beach got the shot mark to prove it on my forehead once a wrecker Allways a wrecker. From a reincarnated wrecker

[@MrJohnestall]

I really enjoyed your great film , thank you .