Newley Discovered 'Marie' Wreck - SOLD OUT
Fri, 17 May
|Mount Batten
Dive the newly discovered Marie Wreck (Rescheduled from 2023 Blown-Out trip).
Time & Location
17 May 2024, 07:30 – 20:00
Mount Batten, Unit 4, The Mountbatten Sailing & Watersports Centre, 70 Lawrence Rd, Mount Batten, Plymouth PL9 9SJ, UK
About the event
This will be a 1 dive trip going out on "Seeker" from the Mount Batten Centre.
Ropes Off: is a bit of a late one at: 12:15hrs
Cost: £85 PP
The new shipwreck attraction at Plymouth within recreational depths since the Scylla was sunk in 2004. It’s the Victorian steamship Marie, lost for 128 years but recently discovered by a local team from In Deep Dive Centre.
The Marie was found lying upright in Bigbury Bay at a depth of 40m
History of the Marie
The 511-ton gross three-masted iron steamship was built in 1863 in Danzig, equipped with a 92hp steam engine, boilers and single screw.
In February 1895 the newly formed Steamship Marie Company Ltd of London arranged to buy the vessel. It is not known whether ownership had already been transferred when the Marie was lost two months later.
Captain Matthew Cowper, having sailed the ship from Liverpool to Dunkirk with a cargo of coal, started back across the Channel from Saint-Valery-en-Caux on 21 April, carrying round flint for pottery-making to Runcorn in Cheshire.
Marie ran into fog, strong south-westerlies and heavy rain, and it’s thought that Captain Cowper decided to get out of the rough seas by making for the safety of Plymouth Sound – but his ship disappeared in the early hours of 23 April.
If you wish to dive this please reserve your spot.
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