Lee Norgate Receives a prestigious award from the Nautical Archaeological
Society
| Lee Norgate is part of the FBI
team with his Organisation for the Research of Coastal
Artefacts (ORCA) , and he carries out his own research into the maritime and
aeronautical heritage of Filey. Lee is a member of the
Nautical Archaeological Society's Adopt a Wreck Initiative
(AAW) and part of his work involves cataloguing and
surveying shoreline shipwrecks at the southern end of Filey
Bay, Lee's Team include Linda Pickard and Nigel and together they have produced an
excellent written record
of their work, published in pamphlets with an excellent DVD guide to the wrecks.
In addition to this, Lee undertakes "Wreck walks" to the
sites of these wrecks for members of the public when the
tide and weather conditions are suitable. |
Lee has adopted multiple wrecks sites under
the AAW Initiative and the Nautical Archaeological Society (NAS)
have recognised Lee's work in their annual awards of 2007. in
which ORCA were judged to be the 'Runners up' in this year's
Award. Lee was presented with
a certificate and a cut crystal decanter at the Filey Town
Council Offices by Peter Pritchard (NAS Scotland) and
the Filey Town Mayor, Marion Wright and as part of the Award
ceremony, ORCA
provided displays of their aeronautical and maritime work and a
scale model of the Speeton and Bempton cliffs, with shipwreck
sites and photographs. Below are some details of
the survey work that Lee and his team are
undertaking
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| The team's transport |
Nigel measuring Diamond's boiler |
Lee excavating aircraft
artefact. |
A piece of a
Hudson aircraft |
Accessing the wreck sites in remote locations does present
a problem and in the first picture, the team quad bike is seen
in action to the south of Filey. In this location there
are several wrecks and the one shown with Nigel belongs to the
wreck of the Steam Trawler Diamond. Following on
from this site, there is a location at which artefacts of
wartime aircraft are seen, and Lee is engaged in excavating one
of these in the next picture. Finally, Lee is pictured
with a piece of a Hudson aircraft that has been recovered and
preserved as part of his work.
In the next two of pictures about the work of ORCA, survey work
is being undertaken on the first world war British submarine G3,
wrecked under Speeton cliffs and in the third picture, a steam
boiler from another wreck is being dealt with. The fourth
and fifth pictures show a wreck in more recent times of the
Scarborough fishing boat Sincere where part of her
diesel engine and keel are seen. In the last two pictures,
examples of Lee's popular wreck walks are shown, the last
picture shows a walk to the wreck of the steam ship Laura.
Lee is currently a part of the latest magnetometer survey of
Filey Bay under the Heritage Lottery Grant which is featured in
these pages.
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