New Jersey Scuba Diving

Type:

shipwreck, trawler, Royal Navy

Name:

Pentland Firth is the channel between the northern tip of Scotland and the Islands that form Scapa Flow, the great British naval base, and today one of the best wreck diving locales in the world.

Built:

1934, England

Specs:

( 164 x 27 ft ) 485 gross tons

Sunk:

Saturday September 19, 1942
collision with minesweeper trawler USS Chaffinch (400 tons) - ? casualties

GPS:

40°25.433' -73°52.204' (AWOIS 1991)

Depth:

70 ft

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