| Bretagne |
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| Location |
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Place Name : Teignmouth |
Lat / Long : 50 ° 29 ' 30 '' - - 3 ° 22' 42'' - |
System used to obtain Long / Lat : unknown |
| OS Grid Ref - |
Square : 0 |
8 Figure : 0 |
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| Construction |
| Type : schooner rigged steamship |
Built : |
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Shipyard : Nylands
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Hull material : steel |
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| Dimensions |
| Size : 1439 tonnes |
Length : 71 m |
Beam : 11 m |
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| History |
| Sunk : 10/08/1918 |
Cause : collision |
Date Found : |
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| Depth |
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Shallowest |
Deepest |
| Top : |
17 m |
20 m |
Deck :
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18 m |
22 m |
| Bed : |
24 m |
30 m |
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| Postition |
| Orientation : unknown |
Lying : unknown |
Condition : Unknown |
Seabed Type : Unknown
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Artifacts : |
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| Wreck Owner |
| Owner : Bristol Aerospace Sub-Aqua Club |
Access : public
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War Grave : Unknown |
Protected : Unknown |
| Restrictions : unknown |
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| When to Dive Best time to dive the wreck, relative to high wate |
| 0 - hours |
0 - minutes |
- - high water |
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| General Information : |
Small Boat Launching : |
Brixham, Torquay, Paignton |
Notes : |
With care the Wreck is diveable at most states of the tide. We dived the wreck on 4 July 1999 and the wreck was festooned in soft life aneomes, coral, huge quantities of Pollack, a conger and many Bib. Although the viz was poor the site is excellent and definately worth a dive. The co-ordinates given are GPS using WGS72 datum.
Loads of on-line information including photos on the Bretagne at Bristol Aerospace Sub Aqua Club's website http://www.basac.freeserve.co.uk/bretagne.htm
- - Tim Clouter (tim@clouter.freeserve.co.uk), 16 Dec 99
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References : |
Dive South Devon by Kendall McDonald - see Underwater Bookshop |
Link to More Info : |
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| Information Provided by : |
| Name : Doug Banks |
From a dive on : 04/07/1999 |
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| Supplementary Imformation |
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Posted on : February 23, 2007
Bought and read They Were Never Told and found it a very good book . I also saw John Steele in the Largs and Milport news with photographs of the Divers sent down to attach a rememberance plaque this year around July . So someone has definetly dived it !.I still have the co-ordinates that were on this web site but have somehow vanished - i will be passing the wreck site next week and hopefully i can verify .
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Posted on : February 23, 2007
The book regarding HMS Dasher (as mentioned by Gordon T) is entitled "They Were Never Told. The Tragedy of HMS Dasher"
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Posted on : February 23, 2007
Once again i have tried to contact jon seed
via his new email address this time again mail returned.
so jon if you do exsist and if you did the dives prove it otherwise i take your postings as spoofs.
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Posted on : February 23, 2007
There is a book called "they were never told" which i have just seen in Dillons Glasgow . It is by Argyll publishing but i can't remember the author . It is all about the Dasher controversey - unmarked graves etc and goes into the whole thing in extreme detail with survivors accounts and layout of the ship etc . Quite a few photos from inside the ship as well as outside and the sinking .
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Posted on : February 23, 2007
Sorry my report was abrupt, however we are to dive this wreck once again at Easter 2000.
I doubt many others will be allowed to dive on this wreck due to the nature of it's history, depth & of course being a war grave.
We are a military diving diving team ( ex forces defence ) but you never know if you ask in the right places.
Will be publishing a document shortly on our findings so watch this space.
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Posted on : February 23, 2007
I used to live in Arran as a child and I can always remeber going out on my clinker and getting snagged whilst atttempting to dive the wreck. It always used to show up on my father's fish finder, we didn't have a clue what it was until we were told by submarine docker at faslane that a war wreck had lay roughly in the area we fished.
p.s. If any divers find any of my tackle please put a note on the site. I lost a home made cod jig out there!!!!
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Posted on : February 23, 2007
Loads of on-line information including photos on the Bretagne at Bristol Aerospace Sub Aqua Club's website
http://www.basac.freeserve.co.uk/bretagne.htm
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Posted on : February 23, 2007
i have tried to contact jon seed via e mail
but had it returned.
does anyone else have info regarding the dives on the dasher.
Or where i can contact jon
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Posted on : February 23, 2007
I am amazed to hear that this has been dived !. Is the wreck not charted off Arran - i have passed over and looked for it a few times . Do you have the proper co-ordinates and could you say what the dive was like and what condition the wreck is now in .
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