Ship Graveyards Codexery

A source-cited reference to ship graveyards

Ship Graveyards (21)

• Ship graveyard — Locations where ships decay, are scrapped, or rest as wrecks.
• Alang — Home to the world's largest ship graveyard.
• Blackpool shipwrecks — Shipwrecks along the Fylde coast from Fleetwood to Lytham St Annes.
• Cemitério Dos Navios — Angolan ship graveyard cleared by 2025, leaving only keels.
• Fordson Island — Artificial island in the River Rouge, created in 1918.
• Forton Lake — Tidal creek in Gosport with around thirty wrecked vessels.
• Goodwin Sands — A shifting sandbank off Kent that has wrecked over 2,000 ships.
• Graveyard of the Atlantic — Treacherous waters off North Carolina, Nova Scotia, and Cape Cod.
• Graveyard of the Pacific — A dangerous Pacific Northwest stretch with thousands of shipwrecks.
• Green Jacket Shoal — Rhode Island's largest ship graveyard, with 29 wrecks.
• Landévennec — Ship graveyard for civilian and naval vessels in Brittany.
• Mallows Bay — Site of the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere.
• The Manacles — Treacherous Cornish reef with over a hundred shipwrecks.
• Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility — U.S. Navy facilities holding decommissioned ships pending final disposition.
• Nouadhibou — World's largest ship graveyard, built through bribery over time.
• Purton Hulks — Largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain, beached to protect a canal.
• Sable Island — A crescent sandbar known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
• Seven Stones Reef — A hazardous reef with over 200 shipwrecks.
• Staten Island boat graveyard — An accidental marine museum of decaying 20th-century vessels.
• Suisun Bay — Shallow tidal estuary and former anchorage of the U.S. Navy Mothball Fleet.
• Torpedo Alley — A World War II graveyard of Allied ships off North Carolina.