[Talk-GB] Purton Hulks

[Andy Robinson]

In a prior life I worked for an engineering firm who's boss was a keen sailor, as was the chief engineer. They decided to build concrete sailing yachts based on an Australian design. One got built but alas that’s as far as it went.

Cheers
Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hughes [mailto:tom at compton.nu] 
Sent: 01 June 2016 12:41
To: Andy Mabbett; Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Purton Hulks

On 01/06/16 12:12, Andy Mabbett wrote:

> The Purton Hulks:
>
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purton_Hulks
>
> are a set of boats, which have been deliberately beached on the banks 
> of the River Severn, to reinforce the river banks.
>
> The author of the above Wikipedia article and I would like to mark 
> each individual hulk on OSM, and to include their coordinates in the 
> Wikipedia article.
>
> A Bristol University Survey map of 1996 is on page 6 of:
>
>    
> http://nauticalarchaeologysociety.org/sites/default/files/u9/purton_re
> port_2008.pdf
>
> Some of the hulks are visible in Bing imagery.
>
> Can anyone assist? How should they be tagged?

I suggest barge=concrete ;-)

Not that I had any trouble believing you could make ships out of concrete or anything when I first heard about them as a teenager.

Tom

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