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French naval ship graveyard at Landévennec on the river Aulne, to the south of the roadstead of Brest.

Ship graveyard

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A ship graveyard or ship cemetery is a location where the hulls of scrapped ships are left to decay and disintegrate, or left in reserve. Such a practice is now less common due to waste regulations and so some dry docks where ships are dismantled (to recycle their metal and remove dangerous materials like asbestos) are also known as ship graveyards.

By analogy, the phrase can also refer to a large number of shipwrecks which have accumulated in a single area but not been removed by human agency, instead being left to disintegrate naturally. These can form in places where navigation is difficult or dangerous (such as the Goodwin Sands or Blackpool), where a large number of ships have been deliberately scuttled together (as with the Kaiserliche Marine at Scapa Flow), or where a large number of ships have been sunk in battle.

The ship graveyard without a name is also the title of a novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

[edit] List of ship graveyards

[edit] France

[edit] USA

The US Navy "phantom fleet" at Suisun Bay, to the north of San Francisco Bay
Witte's Marine Salvage - the Staten Island boat graveyard^[1]

[edit] Africa

Wrecks all along the peninsular coast at Nouadhibou

[edit] Asia

Several locations near the Aral Sea

[edit] Australia

There is a ship's graveyard located on the North Arm of Adelaide's Port River, with a number of wrecks dating from 1909 to 1945.

[edit] References

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[edit] External links

(French) Ship graveyards
(French) Ship graveyard on the Rance
(French) Ship graveyard at the port of Guilvinec-Lechiagat
(French) Ship graveyard at Magouër

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