Information on TileBoat/SS Unicorn

[GLOC]

Diving this wreck this weekend with Brian/Aquanauts and want to find some information out about it.

I know Brian will give us some information but I also know he is a busy man! Any links to dive reports would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

[stevechesh]

Unicorn - South West Mafia

[Brian of Aquanauts]

Some info here Unicorn - South West Mafia

we could also do the foyle or the medoc

[milldog]

All very nice dives, hope you have a good one, the vis should be good

SS Unicorn

This 134 ton rear engined steamer sank on 8th April 1923 by suddenly plunging into the water in heavy seas south of Rame Head. She was carrying a cargo of bricks and tiles from Plymouth to Jersey. She was 28m long and 6m wide, built in 1895 and had a 3 cylinder triple expansion engine.
She lies just over 50m deep at 50°16.937': 04°15.529' on a silty bottom. Stacks of red roof tiles lie inside the wreck. Single boiler, and engine are still there immediately forward of the stern. Hull quite broken, but part of stern listing to starboard and more intact. Propellor and rudder still present. An anchor near the bow, though the bow is not recognisable as it has broken and collapsed into the silt. Only the stern shows appreciably on a sounder. Some old net on her. Lot of congers and other life on the wreck. The stern stands up to 3m high.


Graham