Sport Diving Shipwrecks
in and around Plymouth Sound National Marine Park
The map shows the shipwrecks in less than 50m depth that are near the city of Plymouth in the south-west corner of the UK.
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List of Shipwrecks
| Name | Description | Date |
Location | Depth (m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A7 | Submarine | 1914 | West of Rame, sunk [diving restricted] | 37 |
| Abelard | Armed trawler | 1916 | Breakwater, mined | 5 |
| Ajax | Paddle steam ship | 1854 | Mewstone, wrecked | 5 |
| Constance | Steam cargo ship | 1888 | Shagstone, wrecked | 12 |
| Coronation | 2nd Rate warship | 1691 | Off Penlee Point, wrecked [diving restricted] | 5 - 18 |
| Elk | Armed trawler | 1940 | Off Penlee Point, mined | 30 |
| Encourage | Fishing vessel (MFV) | 1940 | South of the Breakwater, mined | 15 |
| Firewater | Tug | 1990 | Cattewater, foundered [diving restricted] | 5 |
| Foyle | Destroyer | 1917 | South of Penlee Point, foundered | 46 |
| Fylrix | Cargo vessel | 1984 | Jennycliff Bay, beached | 5 |
| Glen Strathallan | Steam yacht | 1970 | Shagstone, scuttled | 12 |
| Hiogo | Steamship | 1867 | Eddystone, wrecked | 12 - 18 |
| Hopper Barge No. 42 | Hopper barge | 1913 | Breakwater, wrecked | 12 |
| James Eagan Layne | Liberty ship | 1945 | Whitsand Bay, beached | 24 |
| HMT Kingston Alalite | Armed Trawler | 1940 | Western shipping channel, mined | 15 |
| Marie | Steamship | 1895 | Bigbury Bay, foundered | 40 |
| Medoc | Training ship | 1940 | Off Rame Head, torpedoed | 53 |
| Nepaul | Steam ship | 1890 | Shagstone, wrecked | 5 |
| Persier | Steam ship | 1945 | Bigbury Bay, torpedoed | 30 |
| Poulmic | Transport | 1940 | South of Breakwater, mined | 14 |
| Rame Barge / Leen | Barge | 1905? | West of Rame, unknown | 33 |
| Rosehill | Steam collier | 1917 | Whitsand Bay, torpedoed | 30 |
| Rothesay | Steam ship | 1877 | Mewstone Ledge, wrecked | 5 |
| Scylla | Frigate | 2004 | Whitsand Bay, scuttled | 24 |
| Stoke Barge | Barge | ? | Off Stoke Point | 42 |
| Tavy | Pilot vessel | 1995 | Breakwater Fort, scuttled | 7 |
| Taxiarchos | Brig | 1843 | Rame Head, wrecked | 5 |
| Totnes Castle | Paddle steamer | 1967 | Bigbury Bay, foundered | 39 |
| Unicorn | Steam ship | 1923 | Off Rame Head, foundered | 53 |
| Vectis | Steam collier | 1912 | Andurn Point, wrecked | 0 - 5 |
| Viking Princess | Trawler | 1996 | Off Hilsea Point, foundered | 25 |
| W. Woollven | Pilot vessel | 1925 | Off Rame Head, foundered | 46 |
| Yvonne | Barquentine | 1920 | Breakwater, wrecked | 9 |
The list of contributors to this study of Plymouth shipwrecks, hulks and aircraft crash sites can be found here 
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