The Alderney Maritime Trust

Team relaxing outside the building which, during the season, is used by the team for draughting, equipment maintenance and general admin.

The Alderney Maritime Trust (hereafter 'the Trust') is a charitable association that was established by the States of Alderney in 1993. It is an entirely volunteer organisation from which nobody receives financial benefit. According to the preamble of the trust deed (revised 2003) its broad purpose is:

"To find, salvage and preserve ships of historic or naval importance or interest which have been wrecked or lost in Alderney's waters, and the remains, cargoes and artefacts of such ships, so that they may be conserved, studied and displayed for the benefit and education of the inhabitants of the Island and elsewhere."

The particular objectives of the Trust are (from the Trust deed):

a) 'to raise funds for, and to promote, the finding, recording, excavation, raising, bringing ashore or other salvage or recovery, study, conservation, keeping, publication, reporting on, exhibition and display of:-

(i) any ships or other vessels or craft of historic or naval interest wrecked, sunk, lost or abandoned in the seas surrounding Alderney lent to the Trust by the written authority of the General Services Committee of the States of their legal owners, if known;

(ii) any parts of any such ships, vessels or craft, or any cargo, artefacts or other articles carried on them or belonging to them, whether recovered from the foreshore, the sea bed or elsewhere;

Ownership of artefacts
By virtue of it being an historic wreck within the meaning of 'The Wreck and Salvage Law, 1986', Bailiwick of Guernsey (amended 1991), the ownership of all artefacts from the Alderney Elizabethan Wreck is held by the States of Alderney. By agreement between the States of Alderney and the Alderney Maritime Trust (dated 14 May, 2004), custodianship of all artefacts from the Alderney Elizabethan Wreck is granted to the Trust.

Copyright

The data and digital images of artefacts contained within this web-site and its accompanying database are the copyright of the Alderney Maritime Trust.

They can be reproduced without permission for study or personal use and for educational displays or programmes within schools. Where practical, an acknowledgement of the Alderney Maritime Trust would be appreciated.

They may not, however, be copied or reproduced, in any form, for publication or commercial purposes without the written permission of the Alderney Maritime Trust.

People and organisations must not distribute, or otherwise disseminate, the data or images contained within this web-site and its accompanying database, without making clear to the receiver, the license terms and copyright provisos described above.