page_title: Ship graveyard
hierarchical_section_title: Ship graveyard
caption_attribution_description: English: Shipwrecks in Camaret-sur-Mer
context_page_description: A ship graveyard or ship cemetery is a location where the hulls of scrapped ships are left to decay and disintegrate, or left in reserve. Such a practice is now less common due to waste regulations and so some dry docks where ships are broken are also known as ship graveyards.
  By analogy, the phrase can also refer to an area with many shipwrecks which not been removed by human agency, instead being left to disintegrate naturally. These can form in places where navigation is difficult or dangerous; or where many ships have been deliberately scuttled together; or where many ships have been sunk in battle.
  As of January 2020, with 30% share India has the highest global revenue and highest share of global ship breaking, and the world's largest Ship graveyard is in India at
  Alang.
context_section_description: A ship graveyard or ship cemetery is a location where the hulls of scrapped ships are left to decay and disintegrate, or left in reserve. Such a practice is now less common due to waste regulations and so some dry docks where ships are broken (to recycle their metal and remove dangerous materials like asbestos) are also known as ship graveyards.
  By analogy, the phrase can also refer to an area with many shipwrecks which not been removed by human agency, instead being left to disintegrate naturally. These can form in places where navigation is difficult or dangerous (such as the Seven Stones, off Cornwall, or Blackpool, on the Irish Sea); or where many ships have been deliberately scuttled together (as with the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow); or where many ships have been sunk in battle (such as Ironbottom Sound, in the Pacific).
  As of January 2020, with 30% share India has the highest global revenue and highest share of global ship breaking (number and volume of ships broken), and the world's largest Ship graveyard is in India at 
  Alang.
caption: Shipwrecks in Camaret-sur-Mer
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