Google Earth Hacks | File Downloads | Categories | Most Popular | Newest | Top Rated | By State | By Country
Google Earth Hacks Login | Register    
Logging in will reduce the number of ads that you see    
 
(advanced search)

Subscribe in a reader Get updates by e-mail Follow GEH on Twitter Follow Mickey on Twitter

Dig Deeper


Ships, Boats, Submarines - Wrecks



Files Available In This Category


To see only files from a specific country in this category select below:
Country -

 RatingDownloads 

Satellite overlay - Costa Concordia from satellite

Satellite overlay - Costa Concordia from satellite

Satellite view overlay - The sunken Costa Concordia Cruiser which collided against the rocks of the Italian island of Giglio on January 13th, 2012.
Rating of 4.66666666601/26/20123,110Google Earth Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Tsunami-beached and capsized Boats

Tsunami-beached and capsized Boats

Two boats, the one on the left beached, the one on the right capsized, due to tsunami in japan.
No rating yet04/05/20111,124Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Powell River Breakwater

Powell River Breakwater

Of all the concrete ships built during World War I and II, only 10 are known to still be afloat. These ships form a massive floating breakwater on the Malaspina Strait in the city of Powell River in British Columbia, Canada.

The breakwater was constructed to protect the logging pond of the Powell River Company pulp and paper mill (later purchased by Pacifica Papers).

No rating yet01/24/2011530Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Ship Wreck - SS Falcon

Ship Wreck - SS Falcon

The wreck of the SS Falcon. There's not much left of the iron structure but you can see it at low tide.
No rating yet10/10/2010622Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Tanker in two halfs

Tanker in two halfs

Rating of 509/01/2010820Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Rusted Andrea Doria Salvage Sub Quester I

Rusted Andrea Doria Salvage Sub Quester I

Quester I is the name of a 45-foot submarine built by Jerry Bianco, a shipyard worker in Brooklyn, NY in 1967. Made of salvaged metal, Bianco built the submarine in order to raise the wreck of the passenger ship SS Andrea Doria. The submarine was launched unsuccessfully in 1970 when it tipped sideways and became stuck in the muddy banks.
No rating yet08/29/2010274Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Salvaging the Cargo Ship ROSTOK

Salvaging the Cargo Ship ROSTOK

ROSTOK, a 4,900 grt general cargo ship laden with steel coils, suffered steering failure, causing it to ground across the banks of the Sulina Channel, near Partizani, Romania, in 1991. Shortly thereafter the vessel capsized and rolled on her starboard side. Three previous salvage attempts by other salvors proved unsuccessful, leaving hull and cargo still submerged and posing a serious hazard to...
No rating yet08/08/2010196Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Wreck of the Mexican Gunboat Montezuma

Wreck of the Mexican Gunboat Montezuma

She displaced 1164 tons, extended in length to 203 feet, and possessed a surprising 280 HP in her engines. Her extensive armament consisted of two 68 pdr swivel and six 42 pdr long Paixhans guns.5 She was built in London in the shipyards of Greens and Wigrams. She was a heavy-timbered wooden vessel constructed along what were then ultra-modern lines.
No rating yet07/28/2010211Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Wreck of the SS Minmi

Wreck of the SS Minmi

The SS Minmi was built in Glasgow, Scotland in 1927. It was 75 metres long, and displaced 1455 tons. The Minmi was a collier, carrying coal from Newcastle to Melbourne and returning empty. It was named either after the lower Hunter Valley town of Minmi, or the nearby Minmi Colliery.

On 8 May 1937 the Minmi left Melbourne for Newcastle under Captain Robert Clark Callum. The Minmi'...
Rating of 307/28/2010275Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

The Former Presidental Yacht USS Williamsburg in La Spezia

The Former Presidental Yacht USS Williamsburg in La Spezia

USS Williamsburg was a US Navy gunboat, a former private yacht, that served as a presidential yacht from 1945 to 1953.

Williamsburg remained at Norfolk into November undergoing conversion. The ship then sailed for the Washington Navy Yard where, on November 5, 1945, she relieved Potomac as presidential yacht and, on 10 November 1945, erstwhile gunboat was re-designated AGC-369. ...
No rating yet06/04/2010322Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Wreck of the SS Werner Kunstmann at Goswick

Wreck of the SS Werner Kunstmann at Goswick

Werner Kunstmann is reputed to have been scuppered following reports that she was on route to supply her cargo of iron ore to German factories which had been building up in their preparations for the start of World War 1. All 17crew were saved when the ship ran aground in fine weather on the Goswick sand ridge and was lost.
No rating yet05/03/2010458Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Wreck of the Sea Belle near Holy Island

Wreck of the Sea Belle near Holy Island

The Sea Belle ran aground on the Goswick sands in a storm. Though she was wrecked totally some of her ribs and keel are still to be seen at low tide firmly bedded in the sand.
No rating yet05/03/2010283Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

HMS Calypso (1883)

HMS Calypso (1883)

Wreck of HMS Calypso (1883), a Victorian era Calypso-class corvette of the Royal Navy, and sister of the famous HMS Calliope (1884), nicknamed the "Hurricane Jumper".
Rating of 2.503/29/2010425Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Keel of former ferry MS Pinen

Keel of former ferry MS Pinen

This is the sadly remains of one of the most famous danish ferries M/S Pinen that sailed on the route Pinen-Plagen at todays Sallingsund Bridge from 1958 to 1978, it's now on Islands Brygge in Copenhagen only with the keel up. It's sister ship, M/S Plagen is today sailing on the route Feggesund - Næssund under the name M/S Sallingsund.

The Pinen-Plagen ferries were very famous in...
No rating yet02/25/2010293Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Remains of the British Battleship HMS Prince George

Remains of the British Battleship HMS Prince George

HMS Prince George was a Majestic-class predreadnought battleship launched in 1895. She was named after the future George V of the United Kingdom and was the fourth and final ship to bear that name.

Prince George was placed on the disposal list at Sheerness on 21 February 1920, and was sold for scrapping to a British firm on 22 September 1921. She was resold to a German firm in De...
No rating yet02/16/2010693Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Wreck of the RV Sarsia at Birkenhead

Wreck of the RV Sarsia at Birkenhead

The former Fisheries Research vessel, Sarsia, built in 1953, sank at her lay-up berth in the East Float, Birkenhead many years ago.
No rating yet12/17/2009334Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Landing Ship Tank LST - HMS Stalker

Landing Ship Tank LST - HMS Stalker

This vessel was built by Canadian Yarrow at Esquimalt, Canada in 1944 and was not completed until 1945. Stalker did not arrive in the UK until sometime in 1946. Therefore she and her Canadian built sisters, along with their British counterparts, were all built too late for WW2. After 1947 LST (Landing Ship - Tank) 3515 was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Stalker, and was employed as a s...
No rating yet12/17/2009263Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Wrecks of two X-Craft Midget Submarines

Wrecks of two X-Craft Midget Submarines

These two wreckages of a "X-craft" midget submarine can be found at the Aberlady beach. During the Second World War, these two were used as training object and after the war attached to a concrete block for target practice.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/8403/X-Craft-Midget-Submarines.htm
Rating of 511/19/2009419Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Shipwreck at Ettrick Bay near to Kildavanan, Argyll And Bute

Shipwreck at Ettrick Bay near to Kildavanan, Argyll And Bute

At low tide you can walk right round the wreck - according to a poem in a picture frame in the Colintraive Hotel, this was a fishing boats whose crew was less than alert (and there is a hint that alcohol may have had a part to play) so they mistook the low lying ground behind Ettrick Bay for the channel to the north of the island.
No rating yet11/14/2009309Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Wreck of the Juniata, Inganess Bay near to Kirkwall Airport

Wreck of the Juniata, Inganess Bay near to Kirkwall Airport

Build as "Sprucol" in 1918 build by Short Bros., Ltd., Sunderland.
Sold in 1924 to the Anglo-American Oil Co., ( J. Hamilton ), London and renamed "Juniata".
Sold in 1934 to the Standard Auxilaire des Transports and not renamed.
Resold in 1936 to the Anglo-American Oil Co., ( F.J. Wolfe ), London.
1940 scuttled as a blockship at Scapa Flow.
06.1949 Salved and...
No rating yet11/14/2009281Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Wreck of the HMS Port Napier in Loch Alsh, near to Kyle of Lochalsh

Wreck of the HMS Port Napier in Loch Alsh, near to Kyle of Lochalsh

The HMS Port Napier was a minelayer which sank as the result of a fire on 27th November 1940. It had been towed to this spot to save Kyleakin and Kyle of Lochalsh as she was loaded with 550 mines and 6000 rounds of ammunition at the time of the fire! She lies on her starboard side with the bows pointing towards Kyleakin.
No rating yet11/14/2009186Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

SS Nornen wreck near to Berrow, Somerset

SS Nornen wreck near to Berrow, Somerset

This is the wreck of a Norwegian Barque the SS Nornen, which was driven in a raging gale on to the beach in 1897. The ship's crew of ten, together with their dog, were taken off by the lifeboat and landed safely at Burnham. This is all that's left of her, where she lies on the beach below the church at Berrow in Somerset.
No rating yet11/14/2009289Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Wreck of the German Destroyer SMS B-98 in the Bay of Lopness, Sanday

Wreck of the German Destroyer SMS B-98 in the Bay of Lopness, Sanday

During the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, not all of the ships were successfully sunk. One of these, the destroyer B98, was subsequently towed away but as she was passing Sanday, the tow line broke and she ran aground in the Bay of Lopness. Today, her turbines and boilers are still clearly visible from the beach at low tide.

Arguably the fi...
No rating yet11/14/2009428Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Wreck of the Austrian Steamship Laura near to Speeton, North Yorkshire

Wreck of the Austrian Steamship Laura near to Speeton, North Yorkshire

The Austrian Steamship “Laura” was a 2000 ton cargo ship who found herself off the coast near Filey in a thick fog. She and her crew of 24 hands had picked up a cargo mainly consisting of coke from Newcastle and were bound for Trieste. The vessel ran aground in the dense fog and the Coastguard was alerted to her distress signals at around 10 a.m. on the morning of the 21st November 1897. The Fi...
No rating yet11/14/2009229Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in

Wreck of the MV Creteblock near to Whitby, North Yorkshire

Wreck of the MV Creteblock near to Whitby, North Yorkshire

During the First World War, shortage of steel led to the construction of a number of experimental ships out of ferro-concrete (reinforced concrete). The remains of one of these ships, the tug ‘Creteblock’ now lay on Whitby Scaur. In 1927 the Creteblock was decommissioned and the hulk sat in Whitby harbour until after the Second World War, when it was towed out to sea to be intentionally sunk. O...
No rating yet11/14/2009189Google Earth Logo
Google Maps Logo
Virtual Earth Logo
Yahoo Maps Logo
Google Earth Plug-in



 

Google Earth Hacks is not affiliated with Google in any way

"Google" and "Google Earth" are trademarks of Google Inc.

Google Earth Hacks © 2005 - 2012 MickMel, Inc - Privacy Statement

GEH in the News - GEH en Español - GEH auf Deutsch - GEH en Français