Professional underwater photographer & diving journalist John Liddiard , dived the wreck of the T R Thompson on 26th July 2009. His photos can be viewed on his webiste :- http://www.jlunderwater.co.uk/ .
To look specifically at his shots of of the T R Thompson wreck , click www.jlunderwater.co.uk/piclib/goto.htm?pic=09_07_26_2338 . The TRT photos are numbered 2338 (and onwards). All of John's photos have captions that identify the wreck feature being photographed.
We hope that in due course , possibly after more dives on this wreck, John will be able to write-up a "Wreck Tour" in the DIVER Magazine.
Many thanks John , and well done on the identification work.
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Friday, August 22, 2008
A Summary of the Loss of UB57
A summary from Global Underwater Explorers :-
After sinking the City of Brisbane, the UB-57 headed for home in Zeebrugge, Belgium. During the journey, having first checked that the horizon was clear, she started to surface to run on diesels and recharge her batteries. Upon surfacing, Lohs opened the hatch to find himself almost directly beneath a low-flying British airship. A crash dive was immediately ordered, but they had been spotted and the airship started dropping bombs. Fortunately, they evaded sinking and continued their journey home.
On 14 August 1918, Lohs radioed to base that he had sunk 15,000 tons of shipping and was returning to base. That night he started through the narrow and swept straits of Dover. Nothing more was ever heard from him but it is likely that he hit a mine near Zeebrugge. Lohs' body and those of some of his crew were washed up near the mouth of the river Scheldt about one week later. Lohs was one of the Imperial Navy's war heroes, having sunk an impressive seventy-six merchant ships and one warship, a total of 148,677 tons. During World War II, one of the U-boat flotillas operating from France was named in his honour.
Johannes Lohs ~ UB57 Commander
Johannes Lohs has his Wikipedia Page ( with much shared data that is also on u.boat.net) .
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
The Ship's Master ~ William Shewan
A hand written record states the Master was William Shewan late of the "Gladas Royal" which was also sunk. The "Gladas Royal" was a similar / identical ship to the TR Thompson.
Photograph of a painting of the "Gladas Royal"
[Info from Alf Rodenby]
Monday, August 18, 2008
Deteriorating Wreck
Propellor / Rudder Area 2006
Propellor / Rudder Area 2008
Upright ribs on stern 2007
Ribs hanging off stern 2008
Looking back over some of the video images taken this year it is easy to see how much the stern of the wreck is deteriorating. There are now no upright ribs on the stern with large areas now collapsed. You also used to be able swim through the rudder and propeller gap but now the hull has collapsed over the port side which prevents a clear swim through. The images above show these changes
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Sketch Plan of Beni Saf Port
Port of Beni Saf , Algeria (click to enlarge)The plan indicates the water inside the harbour is 9m deep.
Saturday, August 02, 2008
Thomas Roe Thompson ~ Final Resting Place
A picture of St Dochdwy's Church in Penarth, the final resting place of Thomas Roe Thompson , shareholder in the SS T R Thompson and likely to be the person that the ship is named after.
Thompson Street, Barry Docks
The Project Team are indebted to Simon Wales for the loan of two books by Brian C Luxton on the history of Barry, South Wales. One of these books contains a print of Thompson Street, Barry Docks with the text :-
"General view of Thompson Street looking towards junction with Holton Road . The Street was named after Thomas Roe Thompson (d.1919) a native of Sunderland who was a director of the Barry Dock & Railway Company. Demolished 1972, it's heyday was prior to the Great War"
Norman and Mary Jack at The T.R.Thompson Dinner
After the fabulous but quite emotional day and Dive on the T.R.Thompson Norman and Mary Jack were guests of Honour at a dinner held in their honour in Alfriston.
Norman gave an emotional speech and was presented with a framed photo of the T.R.Thompson signed by all of the Meridian Divers.
Photos courtesy of Ian Barefoot from the N.A.S
Thursday, June 26, 2008
TRT Bell
Photo of TRT Bell kindly donated by Paul and the Negligent Snail from The YD forum. Not sure if this is the same Bell that is pictured earlier on in the Blog as rumour has it there were 3 bells on the wreck. Perhaps someone could clarify this.
The TRT is the big one at the back in case you cant read it.
But what a nice collection
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
T.R.Thompson on BBC Local History Web Site
BBC Wear have been kind enough to put the Meridian Divers and T.R.Thompson Project blogs on their local history website along with a brief account of the ship. Their web pages features a selection of images taken of the wreck by Meridian Divers Clicking on the link below will take you there:-
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
T.R.Thompson Look-a-Like ?
Whilst trying to track down more info on the T.R.T, I came across this picture of the Westburn.
The Westburn was a British steamship built in 1893 by Short Brothers at Sunderland, England for the James Westoll line. She was 351 feet in length and 3,300 tons with a speed of 7 knots. Does this sound familiar?
This looks almost identical to the TRT
The better quality photo enables us to see what the T.R.T would have looked like.
The Westburn is sunk just outside Santa Cruz harbour in Tenerife in about 30m.
I can almost feel a trip coming on
Tad
Friday, September 15, 2006
TRT images August 2005 Bank Holiday
Hull Plating
Images captured on last years memorable August Bank holiday Dive on the TRT taken by Matt Waterson.
Friday, September 01, 2006
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