Last year we posted photos on the main UK Shore site of the 1926 wreck of the SS Falcon which is visible at low tide in Langdon Bay, Dover. It was with some interest then that I came across archive video footage of the event as it happened in 1926. Thanks to JohnVaughan for posting this on Youtube.
On a later trip to the site I created a 360 degree panorama of the wreck site which I would highly recommend site visitors having a look at (click on the image to the right).
Langdon Bay and the wreck are accessible to the public, but just a warning that the zig-zag cliff path is VERY steep and although there is a hand rail, make sure you wear proper walking shoes/boots and don’t go unless the weather has been dry. Access to the beach then requires a climb down a 20 foot ladder…
Also of interest in Langdon Bay are a set of World War II searchlight positions embedded in the cliff (near the ladder down to the beach). Again, this was a subject of a 360 degree panorama, please have a look…
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Tags: 360, Panoramas, Shipwrecks, SS Falcon, Video
March 20th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Remarkable footage. Thanks for posting this. And your 360 degree panoramas are great. Excellent stuff.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Great 3d video i’ll have to a take a trip down to dover to see
June 19th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Great archive film of the Falcon on fire. Julia Bradbury and myself have been filming on the site today for a future BBC TV program. For the full story of the Falcon’s demise (and other shipwreck stories), see my book ‘Saga of the Goodwins’.
Available on line at http://www.goodwinsandsexplorer.co.uk price £5.99p.
August 17th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Great clip … especially as the Ramsgate Lifeboat featured (“Prudential”), a Dunkirk Little Ship and National Historic Fleet Vessel is now in our ownership. First time we’ve seen ‘live’ footage of her. Now renamed “Trimilia”.