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Surface Vessels => Major Warships => Topic started by: KevD on 05 May 2022 01:01:31 pm
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Gents (and Ladies),
Been working for some now time with Stefan Draminski on a 3D rendition of the wreck of HMS Exeter, depicted in the condition as we discovered her in 2007, using several expeditions worth of survey data, so here is a preview.
Just a little taste for the moment, I'll have a web page up with various angle views in the not too distant future, and a fly-around on YouTube also, or so I am told.
PLEASE NOTE: The 'gash' across the aft deck is not, repeat not the result of a torpedo hit, although the one across the bow certainly is. The other torp hit, right between the funnels, can only be seen on the 3D 'bottom' views, as although it hit the starboard side, it blew out part of the bottom of the ship. The gash across stern deck (and partway down port hull side there) was simply caused by 'gravity', i.e. the weight of the two inner-most props, and rudder, 'pulling down' / collapsing the very stern over a certain amount of time underwater, as the stern was, obviously, never built to support aforesaid weight while laying on her side.
And just so no confusion as to what the stern looks like, another image below. A diver could (has) swim under wreck where the elongated 'V' like bend in starboard deck edge is (on the seabed), and come out at props, and inspected / surveyed the starboard hull under there, and no (torp) hole there.
So, even though the salvagers might have taken her body and soul, we will still have something that many can see, that was made in her and her sailors honour to remember them both / all by.
Enjoy, (I hope).
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Gents,
The memorial web page is now up, thanks to Pierre Kosmidis of WW2wrecks.com.
It contains historical photos, more 3D wreck images and a survey description of the of the wreck itself.
Enjoy!
https://www.ww2wrecks.com/portfolio/a-dedication-to-hms-exeter-the-shipwreck-that-disappeared-featuring-3d-renditions-of-the-wreck-by-kevin-denlay/