{"id":1317,"date":"2016-09-01T12:28:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T11:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2018-08-29T11:13:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T10:13:21","slug":"devon-historic-shipwrecks-given-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/latest-news\/devon-historic-shipwrecks-given-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon historic shipwrecks given protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three of Devon\u2019s historic wrecks have been designated as scheduled monuments.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/10\/The-vanishing-wreck-on-Westward-Ho-beach.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-287 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/10\/The-vanishing-wreck-on-Westward-Ho-beach-240x146.jpg\" alt=\"The vanishing wreck on Westward Ho! beach\" width=\"240\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/10\/The-vanishing-wreck-on-Westward-Ho-beach-240x146.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/10\/The-vanishing-wreck-on-Westward-Ho-beach-800x489.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/10\/The-vanishing-wreck-on-Westward-Ho-beach.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two in North Devon are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV63741&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">merchant ships<\/a> from the 1700s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/explore-devons-heritage\/vanishing-wreck-westward-ho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of them<\/a> thought to have been carrying a cargo of port wine! (pictured right)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV69888&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earliest <\/a>has been lying off Axmouth in East Devon for much longer and has medieval characteristics \u2013 it was spotted in 2001 after the flow of the River Axe changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three of Devon\u2019s historic wrecks have been designated as scheduled monuments. Two in North Devon are merchant ships from the 1700s, one of them thought to have been carrying a cargo of port wine! (pictured right) The earliest has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/latest-news\/devon-historic-shipwrecks-given-protection\/\" aria-label=\"Continue reading Devon historic shipwrecks given protection\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 17:42:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3322,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/3322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}