Condition

2
Shipwreck, Jetty & 'Yair'
252144
MDG22310
Dumfries and Galloway

Description

A collection of features including a crumbling stone and concrete jetty, linear wooden piles (Yair on O.S. map) and 2 abandoned boats. Located in intertidal zone and under threat from erosion. Jetty is 40m x 8m. Boats; 15m long, 10m long and 4m long. ShoreUPDATE 21/10/2015 The yair sits on the east side of the river, the slipway and boats are on the west coast. The slipway was part of the Second World War RAF Air Sea Rescue base at Gibbhill (in use from 1941 to 1944), and is of typical wartime prefab construction. The top is capped with large flat concrete slabs. The landward end is constructed of concrete sandbags, the seaward end is of concrete poured into corrugated shuttering. The southernmost boat is the smaller of the two, and sits 15m to the north of the slipway. A mooring rope runs from the boat to a large timber post adjacent to the slipway. The boat is built of wood, and survives up to 7m in length, but was originally longer. Survives up to 0.5m in height. Clinker construction with copper alloy fastenings. The front 3.5m of the hull is better-preserved; frames and planking survive on both port and starboard sides, and one floor remains in situ towards the front. One internal plank survives in the starboard side towards the front. The base of the stem post survives, and the keel/keelson survives to a length of 7m. The northern boat is much larger, c.15m long, appears to be a wooden trawler, settled on its starboard side, with an iron frame at the stern. Wooden carvel build, with iron fittings. Almost the entire hull survives to deck level although there is fire damage on the uppermost exposed port side planking. The stem post survives to its full height, and has evidence of iron sheathing. The hull is largely intact; keel, keelson, deadwood, stem post, floors, frames survive to top timber, internal and external planking, decking and knees all present. A lower deck survives in areas, and superstructure and elements of deck equipment including rusted chains lie in the interior, possibly fallen in when the deck collapsed. Poured concrete ballast sits in situ. The rudder is detached and lies beneath the stern, and a possible exhaust pipe is visible at the stern. Surface treatment includes red paint and pitch. Regular pattern of holes drilled into the external planking below the waterline, later plugged with wood. This suggests that the vessel was a 'wetwell trawler', with a free flooded area of the hull (contained by watertight bulkheads) to allow the catch to be kept alive and fresh before landing, later returned to a conventional trawler by plugging the holes to make the hull watertight. Various detached metal and timber elements lie loose on the foreshore, though not all are necessarily related to the hulks. ShoreUPDATE October 2019 Surveyed as part of the Galloway Glens Solway Firth Partnership Kirkcudbright Bay Views project, which focused on the remains of the trawler, identified as the Fauna. Summary results in the SCAPE blog post https://scapetrust.org/fauna-kirkcudbright-bay/ A 3d model is available on sketchfab https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/the-fauna-kirkcudbright-bay-da30e22d20a849dc88f9fe18abbb6a0c As described, but condition is deteriorating, and the integrity of the hull is being compromised. The change is visible in a series of photos taken from the same angle from 2010 to 2019.

Location

267320.00
550550.00
27700
54.8321495
-4.0671458

Submitted photographs

Image Date Caption User
October 2019: showing deterioration since 2015 05/10/2019 October 2019: showing deterioration since 2015 training1
October 2019: showing deterioration since 2015
RAF slipway 21/10/2015 RAF slipway training1
RAF slipway
Gibbhill yair on the east bank 21/10/2015 Gibbhill yair on the east bank training1
Gibbhill yair on the east bank
Smaller southern boat 21/10/2015 Smaller southern boat training1
Smaller southern boat
Smaller southern boat 21/10/2015 Smaller southern boat training1
Smaller southern boat
view of the two boats 21/10/2015 view of the two boats training1
view of the two boats
larger northern boat 21/10/2015 larger northern boat training1
larger northern boat
October 2015: larger northern boat 21/10/2015 October 2015: larger northern boat training1
October 2015: larger northern boat
larger northern boat 21/10/2015 larger northern boat training1
larger northern boat
larger northern boat - detached rudder 21/10/2015 larger northern boat - detached rudder training1
larger northern boat - detached rudder
larger northern boat 21/10/2015 larger northern boat training1
larger northern boat
larger northern boat 21/10/2015 larger northern boat training1
larger northern boat

Submitted updates

Update id Date User
3308 05/10/2019 training1
Description ShoreUPDATE October 2019 Surveyed as part of the Galloway Glens Solway Firth Partnership Kirkcudbright Bay Views project, which focused on the remains of the trawler, identified as the Fauna. Summary results in the SCAPE blog post https://scapetrust.org/fauna-kirkcudbright-bay/ A 3d model is available on sketchfab https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/the-fauna-kirkcudbright-bay-da30e22d20a849dc88f9fe18abbb6a0c As described, but condition is deteriorating, and the integrity of the hull is being compromised. The change is visible in a series of photos taken from the same angle from 2010 to 2019.
2259 21/10/2015 training1
Tidal state Low
Site located? Yes
Proximity to coast edge Intertidal
Description A collection of features including a crumbling stone and concrete jetty, linear wooden piles (Yair on O.S. map) and 2 abandoned boats. Located in intertidal zone and under threat from erosion. Jetty is 40m x 8m. Boats; 15m long, 10m long and 4m long. ShoreUPDATE 21/10/2015 The yair sits on the east side of the river, the slipway and boats are on the west coast. The slipway was part of the Second World War RAF Air Sea Rescue base at Gibbhill (in use from 1941 to 1944), and is of typical wartime prefab construction. The top is capped with large flat concrete slabs. The landward end is constructed of concrete sandbags, the seaward end is of concrete poured into corrugated shuttering. The southernmost boat is the smaller of the two, and sits 15m to the north of the slipway. A mooring rope runs from the boat to a large timber post adjacent to the slipway. The boat is built of wood, and survives up to 7m in length, but was originally longer. Survives up to 0.5m in height. Clinker construction with copper alloy fastenings. The front 3.5m of the hull is better-preserved; frames and planking survive on both port and starboard sides, and one floor remains in situ towards the front. One internal plank survives in the starboard side towards the front. The base of the stem post survives, and the keel/keelson survives to a length of 7m. The northern boat is much larger, c.15m long, appears to be a wooden trawler, settled on its starboard side, with an iron frame at the stern. Wooden carvel build, with iron fittings. Almost the entire hull survives to deck level although there is fire damage on the uppermost exposed port side planking. The stem post survives to its full height, and has evidence of iron sheathing. The hull is largely intact; keel, keelson, deadwood, stem post, floors, frames survive to top timber, internal and external planking, decking and knees all present. A lower deck survives in areas, and superstructure and elements of deck equipment including rusted chains lie in the interior, possibly fallen in when the deck collapsed. Poured concrete ballast sits in situ. The rudder is detached and lies beneath the stern, and a possible exhaust pipe is visible at the stern. Surface treatment includes red paint and pitch. Regular pattern of holes drilled into the external planking below the waterline, later plugged with wood. This suggests that the vessel was a 'wetwell trawler', with a free flooded area of the hull (contained by watertight bulkheads) to allow the catch to be kept alive and fresh before landing, later returned to a conventional trawler by plugging the holes to make the hull watertight. Various detached metal and timber elements lie loose on the foreshore, though not all are necessarily related to the hulks.
Slipway - remove from priorities Boats and yair - reassign to priority 3

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