Pomerania SS

Ocean Liner Steamer

Position:51°02'72N - 01°18'80E

Depth 25m

History:

From HSAC: 3382-ton Hamburg-Amerika Line steamer, built 1873. 360ft x 40ft. 600hp two-cylinder engines. General, 109 passengers, New York for Hamburg via Plymouth. Sunk: 25 November, 1878, by collision with iron-hulled barque Moel Eilian off Folkestone. Four out of nine lifeboats destroyed in collision and 48 men drowned.

Well broken up, parts deck of are still intact, bows to the East, lying on her port side.

Silver coins and gold recovered recently from passenger accommodation.

Lots of clock mechanisms in the holds