Innes McCartney

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Innes McCartney
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Innes McCartney (born 1964) is a British nautical archaeologist and historian. He is a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University in the UK.

Career

McCartney is a nautical archaeologist specializing in the interaction of shipwreck archaeology with the historical record.[1]

In 1999, he discovered the 12-inch-gunned submarine Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. off Start Point in the English Channel.[2]

In 2001, he discovered the wreck of Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found., sunk at the Battle of Jutland.[3] In the same year he led expeditions to identify some of the U-boats sunk during Operation Deadlight. Fourteen U-boats were surveyed and several new sites discovered.[4][5]

In 2003 he identified the mystery World War I U-boat off Trevose Head, Cornwall, as Template:SMU[6] by scraping the propellers to reveal the shipyard stamp. This proved that even at a depth of 60 metres (200 ft), war graves of this type can be identified by divers without the need to scavenge parts from them. This featured in the Channel 4 series Wreck Detectives.

In 2006 he featured in the documentary U-boat Death-Trap which followed his search for the identity of three mystery U-boats off the north coast of Cornwall. In the same year he discovered the German auxiliary raider HSK Komet in the English Channel.[7] At the time, it was the only known example of this type of warship anywhere in the world.

In 2008 he found the White Star Line transport Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. off the Scilly Isles.[8][9]

In 2012 McCartney worked alongside wreck hunter David Mearns on an archaeological investigation of the wreck of Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found., sunk in 1941. This project was supported by philanthropist Paul Allen aboard his yacht Octopus. The expedition findings were featured in the Channel Four documentary, How the Bismarck sank HMS Hood.[10]

2015 saw publication of The Maritime Archaeology of a Modern Conflict: comparing the archaeology of German submarine wrecks to the historical text.[11] It shows the extent to which historical sources relating U-boat losses in UK waters in both world wars differ from the actual distribution of the known and identified wrecks. Over 40% of those investigated had no historical precedent. The accuracy of the historic text fell as low as 36% during 1945.

In 2015 and 2016 McCartney worked as archaeological advisor to the Sea War Museum Jutland on detailed archaeological shipwreck surveys to locate all of the heretofore undiscovered wrecks of the Battle of Jutland. This was published in Jutland 1916: The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield,[12] for which he was awarded the 2016 Anderson Medal by the Society for Nautical Research.

The British submarine Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. was also located during the North Sea surveys in 2016.[13]

In 2016, McCartney helped Scottish Power identify a World War I UB-III Class U-boat off the Wigtownshire coast which was found during the seabed survey for an undersea power cable between England and Scotland.[14] McCartney has suggested the wreck is Template:SMU, or possibly Template:SMU, which were both sunk after attacks by British patrol boats in April 1918.[15]

In 2017 he assisted the Sea War Museum Jutland in a detailed survey of the Scapa Flow naval anchorages.[16] The results were published in May 2019 in SCAPA 1919: The Archaeology of a Scuttled Fleet.[17]

In May 2020 it was announced that the wreck of the landing craft LCT 326 had been found off Bardsey Island during surveys by Bangor University, in collaboration with McCartney. The wreck is located over 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) from its supposed loss position.[18][19][20] In September 2021 as part of the same project, it was announced that the minesweeper HMS Mercury had been found in the Irish Sea. It sank in 1940 during sweeping operations.[21]

In September 2022 it was announced that the wreck of the liner SS Mesaba had been identified by McCartney in the Irish Sea during surveys by Bangor University. The ship is famous for having radioed an ice warning, picked up by Template:RMS which later struck an iceberg and sank with high loss of life in the North Atlantic Ocean.[22] SS Mesaba was sunk by German submarine Template:SMU on 1 September 1918. SS Mesaba, LCT 326 and HMS Mercury are examples of the 273 shipwrecks surveyed by Bangor University and assessed by McCartney in a Leverhulme Trust-funded research project, published as a single-authored monograph, Echoes from the Deep.[23] The project led to the naming of 87% of the wrecks surveyed.[23]

Honours

Selected bibliography

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McCartney, Innes. "Author Innes McCartney on how shipwrecks reveal history". Routledge. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Submariners' Association Boat Database". Archived from the original on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Warships found". DIVER. 29 June 2001. Archived from the original on 10 July 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Operation Deadlight Expedition phase 1". uboat.net.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Operation Deadlight Expedition phase 2". uboat.net.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: UB 65". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Komet that turned fireball". Divernet – Diver Magazine Online. Archived from the original on 17 October 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."History Channel: Deep Wreck Mysteries episode guide". Archived from the original on 16 December 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Deep Wreck Mysteries home". Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."How the Bismark sank HMS Hood". Channel Four.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Grove, Eric (March 2017). "The Maritime Archaeology of a Modern Conflict: comparing the archaeology of German submarine wrecks to the historical text INNES MCCARTNEY 328pp., numerous maps and illustrations, Routledge, 2015, £90, ISBN 978-1138814356". Reviews. The International Journal of Maritime Archaeology. 46 (1). Nautical Archaeology Society: 212–214. Bibcode:2017IJNAr..46..212G. doi:10.1111/1095-9270.12219.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McCartney, Innes (2016). Jutland 1916: The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1844864164 – via Google Books.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wreck of second world war British submarine found off Denmark". The Guardian.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wreck of German U-boat found off coast of Stranraer". BBC News. 19 October 2016.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."German World War One U-boat wreck found off Scottish coast".
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Taylor, Craig (9 February 2017). "A day that changed the face of Orkney". The Orcadian. Kirkwall.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McCartney, Innes (2019). SCAPA 1919: The Archaeology of a Scuttled Fleet. Osprey. ISBN 978-1472828903 – via Google Books.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wreck of second world war landing craft found off Wales after 77 years". The Guardian. 6 May 2020.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."World War Two mystery solved after Wales wreck discovery". BBC Wales. 6 May 2020.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Discovery of a WW2 Landing Craft off Wales ends 77 year old mystery". Bangor University.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Discovery of the minesweeper HMS MERCURY". Bangor University.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Titanic: Ship that sent iceberg warning found in Irish Sea". BBC Wales. 27 September 2022.
  23. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McCartney, Innes (2016). Echoes from the Deep: Inventorising Shipwrecks at the National Scale by the Application of Marine Geophysics and the Historical Text. Sidestone. ISBN 978-9464261172 – via Google Books.

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