HMS Colossus Preservation Appeal

A local conservation trust is hoping to raise ?120,000 in order to protect part of the wreck of HMS Colossus, which lies near Samson. The trust is hoping to preserve a piece of carving from the stern of the vessel.

The Colossus was famous for Lord Hamilton’s Etruscan vases, which went down with the ship in 1798. The vases were recovered in 1974. Part of the hull was discovered in 2001.