Shipwreck Museum

Entrance to The Shipwreck Museum Hastings

The Shipwreck Museum is an independent charitable museum in the historic Old Town of Hastings, UK. The museum has artefacts from many ships wrecked in the English Channel from the Goodwin Sands in Kent to Pevensey Bay in East Sussex, including the Amsterdam, a Dutch East Indiaman of 1749, and the Anne of 1690, a warship of Charles II.[1][2] There are also exhibits of fossils found in the local area.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "260-year-old cannon buried in the ground". www.hastingsobserver.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-12. reader only mode
  2. ↑ "Tide-line walk explores wreck of the historic cargo ship Amsterdam". www.bexhillobserver.net. Retrieved 2016-05-12. reader only mode
  3. ↑ "Shipwreck Museum - Heritage / Visitor Centre in Hastings, Hastings - Visit 1066 Country". www.visit1066country.com. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
  4. ↑ "Shipwreck Museum - DAYoutWITHtheKIDS.co.uk - family things to do with kids in Hastings". www.dayoutwiththekids.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
  5. ↑ Litwin, Jerzy (2000). Down the river to the sea: proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Gdańsk 1997. Polish Maritime Museum (original University of Michigan). p. 179. ISBN 9788390998756.

Coordinates: 50°51′22″N 0°35′44″E / 50.8561°N 0.5956°E / 50.8561; 0.5956

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