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Dunraven

    Wreck Information

  • Nationality: British
  • Type of wreck: sail/steam cargo ship
  • Year of construction: 1873
  • Cause and date of sinking: collision with reef, April 22nd, 1876
  • Length: 90 metres
  • Tonnage: 1800 tons

    • Dive Information

  • Visibility: good
  • Current: weak
  • Depth: 30 metres
  • Recommended depth: 20 metres
  • Dive difficulty: medium
  • Inside visit: ok
  • Biological interests: groupers, moray eels, napoleons, soft corals, tree soft corals

    • Wreck Picture

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Wreck Description

The wreck of the Dunraven was officially discovered in 1977, in the Strait of Gobal. There were all sorts of speculations about the identity of the ship. Its shape was very like that of the ship used by Lawrence of Arabia to take precious treasures from Suez to Aquaba; another trail led to a mysterious British warship sent to Middle East during the First World War. It was only in November 1978, at long last, the name Dunraven came to light, inscribed on a porcelain plate, and before long other plates with the same inscription were found. But instead of getting simpler, the mystery thickened. Two Dunravens were listed in the Lyoid's Register books: one had been torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic in 1917; the second had been converted to a "pirate" ship, which sailed as cargo boat but was fitted out as a warship, seriously damaged and sunk in the Channel during the First World War. The solution of the mystery came from the Maritima Museum in Newcastle: the Dunraven was a mixed steam-sail vessel for use on the route to India via Suez. It sank on a return voyage from Bombay to Newcastle; during the night it hit the reef, burned for 14 hours, until sunk to a depth of 30 metres.