Responsibility for the administration of the Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites (ACHWS) was transferred from DCMS to English Heritage by the National Heritage Act 2002.
The Committee was set up to advise Government in accordance with the terms of the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973. The Committee covered the coastal waters of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The ACHWS was abolished on 24 March 2011. English Heritage has set up the Historic Wrecks Panel to advise staff on specialist issues of policy and practice related to complex, contentious and high profile historic wreck sites in UK territorial waters adjacent to England and in UK controlled waters adjacent to England and licensing in UK territorial waters adjacent to England, as appropriate.
The archive of the ACHWS has been deposited at the National Monuments Record.
Mr Tom Hassall OBE - Chair
Mrs Elizabeth Blackburn QC
Dr David Caldwell
Prof Michael Collins
Dr Ian Friel
Mr Nicholas Hall
Ms Jane Maddocks
Dr Colin Martin
Mr Duncan O’Donnell
Ms Suzanne Pleydell
Mr Dave Parham
Mr Ian Panter
2011: 24 March (4 February - licensees' meeting)
