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"The legacy" [2019] ELECD 2395; in Forrest, Craig (ed), "Maritime Legacies and the Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 48

Book Title: Maritime Legacies and the Law

Editor(s): Forrest, Craig

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 2

Section Title: The legacy

Number of pages: 26

Abstract/Description:

WWI has left a vast, dispersed and distinctive physical legacy - particularly rich in wrecks. This chapter considers how we should value this legacy today in the context also of how this legacy was valued in the past, and whether those past values can be reconciled with emerging values. These values have changed over time, and where once these wrecks were looked on as merely a hazard or as a source of scrap metal, their historical and archaeological value has emerged. That many of these legacy wrecks entomb the remains of their crew or are associated with the loss of lives with the sinking, and should thus be treated with the respect and the sanctity they deserve as a ‘maritime war grave’ or memorial, is perhaps the strongest emerging value.