Archaeologists have discovered dozens of lost shipwrecks off Scotland's west coast.

More than 100 maritime archaeological sites were found during the three-year project, including ships, aircraft, cannons, cannonballs and ancient anchors.

A group of previously unreported Second World War flying boats were discovered in the Firth of Lorn in Argyll.

Project Samphire involved archaeologists from Scotland and Australia working with locals from Cape Wrath in the north to the Solway Firth in the south of Scotland.

The team crowdsourced information about possible archaeological sites through meetings with harbour masters, scallop divers, recreational divers, fishermen and others.

The locations identified were recorded before the most promising were visited by teams of volunteer and professional archaeological divers.

Wreck sites recorded include the Yemassee, an American cargo ship lost in 1859, the Hersilla, an armed iron naval yacht lost in 1916, and the Sheila, a ferry which sank in 1927 - and the salvage vessel lost in an attempt to recover it.

The Crown Estate-funded project was led by a team of maritime archaeologists based in Edinburgh at WA Coastal and Marine was and carried out in partnership with the Flinders University of South Australia.

John McCarthy, of WA Coastal & Marine, said: "The knowledge gained during the project will help to enrich our knowledge of Scotland's maritime heritage and this will help us to manage and protect this resource for future generations.

"We could not have done this without the enthusiastic response from local people; everyone from divers to beach combers.

"The span of this project over three years has allowed us to build up a great momentum and to develop a network of contacts along the entire west coast mainland.

"Although the project is now coming to an end we are already looking for ways to apply the lessons we have learned through this project on a more permanent and national scale".