Collection of Sea Wrecks from Mediterranean Sea.
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14 imagesThe Dalton is a small cargo boat of 70m of length built in 1877 which transported lead ingots when it failed on February 19th, 1928. With a thick fog, the boat struck the shallow tray which surrounds the southern part of the island and ran aground near the landing stage of the island. Le Dalton à l'île du Planier est un petit cargo de 70m de long construit en 1877 qui transportait des lingots de plomb lorsqu'il échoua le 19 février 1928. Avec un épais brouillard, le bateau heurta le plateau peu profond qui entoure la partie sud de l'île et s'échoua près du débarcadère de l'île.
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55 imagesThe Donator, or Prosper Schiaffino, is a freighter sunk by a mine in 1945 and located between the islands of Port-Cros and Porquerolles. It is one of the most beautiful wrecks in the Mediterranean. Donator was built in 1931 in Norway. It measured 78 m of length for 12 m of wide, for a speed de14 in 15 knots for a power of 1800 cv. Its resold in 1933 to the General Maritime Company of Armaments which renames it Small Earth and allocates it to the transport of bananas between the Metropolis and the Antilles. In 1939 it becomes the property of an Algerian Company of Navigation, the Company Schiaffino. This one was in the habit of baptizing the ships with the first names of members of the family, and Donator becomes then the Prosper Schiaffino. This company, which had twenty buildings in 1939, lost 19 during the Second World War: 13 by torpedoes, mines, and 6 by bombing while they were at anchor. He was converted into a pinardier. Used for the transport of troops and equipment during the war, it found the transport of wine at the liberation. On November 10, 1945, the Prosper Schiaffino sailed for Spain with 29 sailors on board, to protect itself from the mistral, it skirted the coast. In sight of Porquerolles, it passes to the south of the island, too close, and encounters a field of residual mines. An explosion occurs forward at 1:15 p.m. The bow almost detaches from the ship. In 4 minutes, it sinks from the front, the rear almost vertically. Two victims will be counted. He rests on a sandy bottom at 48 meters, the bridge goes up to 44 meters.
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23 imagesThe messerschmitt 109 is a German, single fighter and a single-engined aircraft. The plane was shot down during the Second World War by Lithtning. After a perfect sea landing, the holy and safe pilot swimming to the island of Planier every close. Le messerschmitt 109 est un avion de chasse allemand, monoplace et monomoteur. L'avion fut abattu pendant la seconde guerre mondiale par un Lithtning. Après un amerrissage parfait, le pilote saint et sauf gagna à la nage l’île de Planier toute proche.
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27 imagesThe wreck of the Rubis submarine is an exceptional dive in the Mediterranean sea, located at Cap Camarat, between Cavalaire and St Tropez. The wreck rests at 40 m on a sandy bottom. She is very well preserved and her straight position on her keel makes her majestic especially on the bow. The Rubis is a minelayer submarine, launched in Toulon in 1931. Measuring 66 m long, 7 m wide and 8 m high, it was armed with a 75 gun, two 13 mm machine guns and it could wet up to 32 mines. This submarine was equipped with a 3900 HP Vickers-Armstrong engine allowing it a speed of 8 knots while diving and 12 on the surface. The Rubis could descend to 50 meters, and navigate in periscopic immersion up to 15 meters with a crew of 45 men. After serving in Norway, he came as reinforcements in the Mediterranean sea and in Scotland during the Second World War. On June 8, 1945, he returned to Oran where he was decommissioned and used as an instruction ship until 1950, then transformed into a submarine base. The Rubis emerged intact from the war, which for this type of boat is quite an achievement. In 1945 the results of the submarine are eloquent: 28 missions, 683 mines dropped, 15 ships, 7 minesweepers, 1 freighter of 4360 tons sunk, a damaged U-BOOT. On January 31, 1958 it was towed 2600 meters from Cap Camarat. Commander Riffaud places the 9 kg charge, and blows up the rear of the Rubis, which sinks to a depth of 40 m for its last trip.
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7 imagesThis Cargo ship was built in 1912 in Scotland, the Sagona called "the Greek" measured 54 m long and 8.5 m wide and weighed 808 tons. The Sagona was shipwrecked in similar circumstances to the Prosper Schiaffino, more frequently called Donator, a few weeks after it on December 3, 1945. Like the Donator, it struck a floating mine while carrying a cargo of wine southeast of Porquerolles a few hundred miles meters apart and sinking under the Panamanian flag. The toll of the sinking is two dead and one sailor missing. The name of the Greek comes from the fact that the crew was of Greek nationality next to the identification realized by divers from the National Navy who discovered documents written in Greek. The majestically beautiful wreck lies on a sandy bottom at a depth of 48m. It was cut into two pieces following the explosion, about fifty meters separating the front from the rest of the boat. The main part rests straight on its keel, like the Donator. We can observe the winch, the propeller, the holds filled with debris from barrels, the chimney, the mast lying on the port side. The flora and fauna are exuberant there. The corridors are invaded by red and two-tone gorgonians and the entire wreck is coated with gigantic schools of fish, composed of marine goldfish, white sea bream and Mediterranean chromis. It is also home to large numbers of groupers, moray eels and common dentex. The wreck has become a sanctuary for all Mediterranean flora and fauna.
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16 imagesSpahis is an steam ship of 52,80 m of length and 7,45 m of wide launched in 1864. On October 9th, 1887, with 20 men of crew and 80 passengers, Spahis, blinded by the thunderstorm, in a black night, throws itself on the site of Fourmigue. Le Spahis est un vapeur en fer de 52,80 m de long et 7,45 m de large lancé en 1864. Le 9 octobre 1887, avec 20 hommes d'équipage et 80 passagers, le Spahis, aveuglé par l'orage, dans une nuit noire, se jette sur le sec de la Fourmigue.