Elizabethan wreck for Stoney

Leicestershire’s Stoney Cove is to gain the wreckage of a 16th century armed merchantman as a diving attraction and archaeological training ground.

The remains were salved from London’s River Thames in 2004 and transported to Horsea Island lake in Hampshire, were they were stored before the decision to move them to Leicestershire.

There are, says the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS), “five huge sections” which are to be sunk at Stoney on 1 June in a depth of just 6m.

Tree ring analysis of the ship’s timbers have suggested that it was built around 1574.

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