A large engine and what is left of a gear box washed up on the beach in a well known beauty spot, the wreckage comes and goes with certain tides.


This engine with attached gearbox has been showing up in many places on tis rocky shoreline over the past 5 years with more parts broken off or corroded away every time it re appears on a different art of the beach, now almost detached the gear box unit will likely become two parts soon.


Size: 8688px × 5792px
Location: Southerndown, Bridgend, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. UK
Photo credit: © Christopher May / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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