Place Name : Littlehampton

This is a large wreck and a fair way out at about 24 miles south of Littlehampton. Hardboats can take upto 3 hours while our RIB did it in about 1 hour 20 minutes. Hardboat divers will show off their cups of tea as the RIBs charge by on the way home but RIB divers will show off their 2nd or 3rd pint as the Hardboats come into port.
The P and O liner Moldavia was sunk by U-boat in 1918 when she was acting as a troop ship packed with US troops, 57 were killed.
She now lies on her port side in about 46m although I found 50 where her bottem meet her port side. Her stern is the most intact rising to about 30m. The vis is often very good. From this stern section I could see the seabed and all the collapsed stern superstructure as it had fallen to the bottom. The stern section has two rows of intact portholes with each one only 6 feet apart. These seem well attached though. You can enter holes in the now vertical deck and inspect these from the inside as well. The vertical deck also has some of the 6" guns with which she was armed, these now point to the surface.
The middle section of the ship appears to be collapsed and seems to be at about 42m. Going from reports by our RIB cox this might be a fertile area for recoverable artifacts due to the number of lifting bags appearing.
Can anyone report more on the middle section and also the bows which I'm informed are also fairly intact?
This is a good dive, well worth the journey IMO.