A shipwreck at Brighton, 1980. The Athina B, a Greek cargo ship, ran aground on the beach just east of the Palace Pier, in front of the Aquarium on January 21 1980. She was declared a write-off and remained on the beach for a month before an enormous crowd watched her being re-floated to the music of a brass band and and towed away to a Medway scrapyard, near Rainham. The ship's anchor can still be seen on the seafront by the Pier.