The Purton Hulks - The Gloucestershire Ships' Graveyard 2011
The Purton Ship's Graveyard, Purton, Gloucestershire. Photographed on April 23, 2011
Memorial to the crews of the Harker tankers WASTDALE H and ARKENDALE H which sank on October 25, 1960 when they struck the Severn & Wye Railway Bridge causing the bridge to collapse onto the tankers which then exploded.The remains of the tankers still like in the river to this day.
