The FLYING ENTERPRISE Saga

A PERMANENT TEESSHIPS FEATURE

New 10 July 2004
TEESSHIPS
A FAVOURITE SHIP

The FLYING ENTERPRISE Saga
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Messages added 10.07.04:

Quite some while back I read with interest your website Teesships to see if you covered any ships that sadly today lie on the seabed, I am a deep sea diver and was thrilled to see one of your favourite ships was the Flying
Enterprise. I have been collecting many images and books, etc., etc., of this wreck for a number of years and the wreck itself has become close to my own heart.
I had not heard of the ship until the early 1990's and set about the quest to discover her whereabouts, in June 2001 on route back from an expedition to explore the lost Gold ship Egypt my team spent time searching for the
wreck and as they say all good things come to those who wait and I became the first sport diver to set eyes on the wreck since she was lost almost 50 years before. The wreck lies today 45 miles from Plymouth at a depth of 280ft.
Many of your readers may well wish to see the wreck as she is today and learn more of how she was discovered so I write to you with the request of making an exchange link on your Flying Enterprise page with my pages
dedicated to the ship. The site is www.deepimage.co.uk and the direct link to the pages are here
http://www.deepimage.co.uk/wrecks/flying_enterprise/fe_mainpages/fe_mainpage.htm
If you would like I am happy to send you an image from the wreck I have taken with my 35mm stills camera for you to place on your site to attract interest. Look forward to your reply, I will be off soon to film for the first time the famous Titanic rescue ship Carpathia lost in the Atlantic in 550ft.
Regards, Leigh Bishop, www.deepimage.co.uk

Thanks for your reply and find attached two images taken from the wreck of Flying Enterprise, to date I have the only photographs from the site other than the film we shot for a documentary for the National Geographic Channel.

Engine telegraph

Helmwheel

It really was quite something to be the first to find her and swim the decks back in June 2001 and indeed since my publication of her discovery many many people have been wanting to visit the wreck.
Please explore a little around my pages and enjoy as we did the discovery of the wreck itself.
I wanted to try and keep the wreck in pristine condition and prevent souvenir hunters from stripping the old girl but that was in my dreams and each time I visit the wreck I see something else missing from her bridge, I am in two minds of recovering the maker's plate which is fixed to the bridge before some hunter steals it away and it disappears for ever. My heart is with Flying Enterprise and I would want everyone to see the maker's plate, of
course I would much prefer it sleeps with the old lady but the way of today's world that will never happen.
I am adjusting my WebPages and pasting your link into them the two images I have sent you show Carlsen's telegraph inside the bridge at 280ft deep and the remains of his helm wheel.
Regards, Leigh Bishop, www.deepimage.co.uk
PS If that maker's plate ever comes up with me I'll post you a picture.

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..... and I had previously received this message:
I was browsing the web this morning and spotted your information on the Flying Enterprise. I was In Plymouth at the weekend and was Diving the wreck. If I can be of any assistance with further information please get
back in touch. I am keen to get hold of a structural plan of the wreck Do you by any chance have any idea where I could get hold of one?
Regards, Neil Richmond

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