| Pentyrch |
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| Location |
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Place Name : Brighton |
Lat / Long : 50 ° 43 ' 22 '' North - 0 ° 15' 43'' West |
System used to obtain Long / Lat : unknown |
| OS Grid Ref - |
Square : 0 |
8 Figure : 0 |
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| Construction |
| Type : Britich Steamer |
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Shipyard :
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| Dimensions |
| Size : 3382 tonnes |
Length : m |
Beam : m |
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| History |
| Sunk : 1918.04.18 |
Cause : Torpedoed |
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| Depth |
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Shallowest |
Deepest |
| Top : |
19 m |
26 m |
Deck :
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19 m |
19 m |
| Bed : |
7 m |
29 m |
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| Postition |
| Orientation : unknown |
Lying : unknown |
Condition : Unknown |
Seabed Type : Sand
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Artifacts : |
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| Wreck Owner |
| Owner : - |
Access : Public
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War Grave : No |
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| When to Dive Best time to dive the wreck, relative to high wate |
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0 - minutes |
- - high water |
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| General Information : |
Small Boat Launching : |
Brigton Marina |
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| Information Provided by : |
| Name : Kevin Crew |
From a dive on : 2009.07.28 |
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| Supplementary Imformation |
Added by:
Crewy
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Posted on : July 28, 2009
torpedoed from the UB 40
Built in 1899 and launched as the Bardsey, this 3382 ton Teeside steamship plied it's trade for nine years before passing into the ownership of the Pentwyn Steamship Co. Ltd. Re-named Pentyrch in tribute to a village north west of Cardiff and armed with a stern mounted 4.7 inch gun, she survived 3 years of wartime trading - but not without incident. During a Mediterranean passage, on September 30th 1916, Pentyrch luckily escaped a mauling from a German submarine, during which she was narrowly missed by a torpedo and suffered damage by gunfire from the pursuing sub. No casualties were reported.
She was not so lucky on April 18th 1918, when laden with coal and five miles W.N.W. of the Brighton Light Vessel, she again came under submarine attack, this time from the UB-40 (which survived the war only to be blown up by the Germans themselves when they evacuated their Flanders Flotilla Base in Bruges). This time a torpedo found its mark and quickly sank her with one fatality among the crew
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