Glenboig brick found on a shipwreck off the state of Washington coast, USA
— 19/09/202303/11/1934 – Coatbridge Leader – Glenboig brick romance. Knocking about ocean bed for twenty
Read moreScottish bricks were exported worldwide and many were aboard ships that sank during storms etc. Sometimes underwater archaeology is able to recover some of these bricks and I will record any I know about here.
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Gartcraig bricks found on a shipwreck on Coventry Reef, Western Australia
— 17/02/202211/06/1899 – The night of the 11th June 1899 marked one of the greatest maritime tragedies off
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Glenboig brick found on a shipwreck off the coast of Sardinia.
— 20/08/2019This photo was forwarded by Egidio Trainito. Egidio states “I am attaching a photo of a brick that
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Scottish bricks found on a shipwreck at Las Palomas Island, Spain
— 22/04/2018Many thanks to Ibon Abuin, Alejandro Gandul and Jose Carlos Bernal for the information and photographs
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Gartcraig bricks found on the shipwreck of the ‘Carlisle Castle’ near Penguin Island, South of Freemantle, Western Australia
— 21/06/2017Two Gartcraig bricks recovered from the shipwreck of the ‘Carlisle Castle’ off the coast
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Thistle bricks on the shipwreck of SS Orcades near Cape Town, South Africa.
— 10/04/2017Many thanks to Bob Frost, Tasmania for directing me towards the following information. RMS Orcades was
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Forth brick found on the shipwreck of the SS Politician off the west coast of Scotland.
— 08/12/2016Found by Craig Muirhead on 17/09/2012. Craig is a keen scuba diver and was diving on the wreck of the
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A. Bald Alloa brick found on a shipwreck of the coast of Denmark
— 17/11/2016This example was found on a carvel-built ship, wrecked on the west coast in the Northern part of Denmark
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Gartcraig bricks on the shipwreck of the ‘Loch Shiel’ at Milford Haven, Wales
— 02/11/201630/01/1894 – SV Loch Shiel sinks at Milford Haven, Wales. 1.277 ton fully-rigged iron sailing ship,
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Starworks JD Glenboig brick found on a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea near Rostock, Germany.
— 02/09/2016Starworks Glenboig brick found on a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea near Rostock, Germany. The following
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Allan & Mann Govan Patent Glasgow brick found in Sri Lanka
— 15/04/2016This brick was photographed by Brian Thomas at the National Maritime Museum in Galle, Sri Lanka. Allan
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Gartcosh and Glenboig bricks found on a shipwreck off Hawaii.
— 29/02/2016Many thanks to Steve L. Price of the Hawaii Undersea Research Lab, for the photographs depicted here.
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Allan & Mann Govan Patent Glasgow brick found in shipwreck off Struis Point, Nr Arniston, South Africa
— 10/02/2016Allan & Mann Govan Patent Glasgow brick found in a shipwreck off Struis Point, Nr Arniston, South
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Gartcraig bricks found off Tromelin, East of Madagascar.
— 02/09/2014Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. In 2008 a French archaeology team were excavating
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