Wrecks

Wreck and salvage laws, the role of the Receiver of the Wreck, wreck owners and salvors and how to report wreck material.

Services

Report of wreck and salvage form (MSF 6200)

Complete this form to let the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) know when you have recovered any wreck material.

Wreck and salvage law
- Detailed guide
- 30 January 2018
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
MIN 499 (M+F) Wreck Removal: Liability and compulsory insurance
- Guidance
- 8 January 2015
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Unknown Insurers: UK Criteria for approval of insurers providing cover for the Civil Liability, Bunkers or Wreck Removal Conventions
- Detailed guide
- 28 November 2019
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
The SS Richard Montgomery: Information and survey reports
- Guidance
- 18 July 2023
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Agreement concerning the Shipwrecked Vessel RMS Titanic [TS No.8/2019]
- International treaty
- 19 December 2019
- Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Light dues for the year 2022 to 2023
- 23 February 2022
- Department for Transport, Trinity House, and Northern Lighthouse Board
- Written statement
Light dues for the year 2021 to 2022
- 11 February 2021
- Department for Transport, Trinity House, and Northern Lighthouse Board
- Written statement
Light dues 2020 to 2021
- 12 February 2020
- Department for Transport, Trinity House, and Northern Lighthouse Board
- Written statement
RMS Titanic wreck to be protected under historic treaty with US
- 21 January 2020
- Department for Transport
- News story
Divers guilty of raiding shipwrecks without declaring their find
- 15 May 2014
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
- Press release

Receiver of wreck: protected wrecks
- 11 September 2020
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
- Research
Post legislative assessment of the Wreck Removal Convention Act 2011
- 28 July 2016
- Department for Transport
- Research