Dive Site Name: SS Greleen               Position: 50.27.38N 03.13.47W

Type: Wreck            Tonnage: 2,286 tonnes     Length: 313ft        Cargo: Iron Ore

Date Lost:  22/9/1917     How Lost:  U Boat UB-40 Torpedo

Max Depth Seabed:  43m                 Depth to top of Wreck: 35m

Minimum Qualification:    Deep Diver / Technical Diver  (Or Equivilent)

The Greleen was transporting iron ore from Bilbao, Spain to Middlesbrough when she was torpedoed on her port side, midships by Oberleutnant Howaldt in his UB-40 just off Berry Head at 04:45.  Because of the nature of her cargo she sank rapidly. The crew jumped overboard and 7 men were picked up some 4 hours later by the Norwegian S.S. Bob and came ashore at Torquay. The master, passenger and 17 crew were lost.

She is intact with only a few holes.  Her stern gun is still on her but broken from the mounting pedestal.

Built as the Blairmore (Photo below is of the Blairmore) in 1894 at Harland and Wolf renamed Ballater before being renamed Greleen. The scan is a 3D image from www.3dliquid.co.uk

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