The Most Beautiful Shipwrecks From Around The World

The Sugar Boat

In the middle of Scotland’s River Clyde, near the banks of the town of Helensburgh, sits a rusting wreck known by the locals as “the sugar boat.” The ship’s real name is the MV Captayannis, and it was a Greek sugar-carrying ship that sank in 1974 after colliding with a BP tanker during severely strong winds. The captain tried to bring the ship into safer waters when it collided with the anchor chains of a British petroleum tanker ship, and water began to flood inside. It was then immediately steered onto a sandbar and beached on her port side, which is how she still sits today.