Egyptian Shipwrecks A Preview - DiveLife

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The ship was 44.2 meters in length, 11.2 meters in beam, and 5.2 meters in draught. Armement was 26 x 12
pounder long guns and 6 x 6-pounder long guns.
Painting of a Magicienne Class Frigate
In 1798, the Serieuse was part of Napoleon's Expedition of Egypt and participated in the Battle of the Nile on
01 August 1798. During the battle she was attempting to reinforce the crew of the Tonnant with 150 men of
her own crew. Engaged and sunk by the HMS Orion. The following morning, 02 August 1798, her poop deck
was still above water and her crew was rescued and made prisoner by the British. (see L'Orient for an account
of the Battle of the Nile.)
HMS CORMORANT
The HMS Cormorant was a 6th rate Frigate of 20-guns built at Havre de Grace in 1793 as the
French ship L'Etna with a length of 119.5 feet and 33 feet in beam. On 13 November 1796 she
was captured by the British ships Melampus and Childers and renamed Cormorant in 1797.
On 20 May 1800 under the command of Captain Courtney Boyle she was wrecked on the coast
of Egypt when she ran aground on a shoal 3.5 miles from the “Bogaz of Rosetta” . The crew
was rescued but were made prisoners by the French.
S.S.CIVILIAN
She was a steamship of7,871 tons built by Chas. Connell & Co., Glasgow in 1902 for Charente
Steamship Co., Ltd., (T & J Harrison), Liverpool. The ship was carrying general cargo when
she was sunk on 16 October 1917 by the German submarine UC-74 (Wilhelm Marschall)
fifteen miles north of Alexandria with the loss of two lives
S.S. CLAN MAC NEIL
The Clan MacNeil was a Turret Deck Steamer built by W. doxford and Sons Ltd.,Sunderland
Yard No. 307 for the Clan Line Steamers (Cayzer, Irvine & Co.).Launched 13 May, 1903 and
completed in July of that same year. On 11 September, 1917 the ship was attacked by a
submarine west of Gibralterand escaped when the torpedo missed. While on a voyage from
Karachi to Marseilles with a cargo of grain and onions, she was attacked by German submarine
UC-34. The ship was torpedoed and sunk approximately 10 miles north of Alexandria,
S.S.VELLORE:
The Vellore was a steel hulled steam powered cargo ship of 4,926 Grt. built at Russell & Co., Port Glasgow
(Yard No. 564) for the Vellore Steam Ship Co., Ltd., (Gow, Harrison & Co.), Glasgow. The ship, which was
launched 25 April 1907, and completed shortly thereafter, was 400 feet in length, 52 feet in beam, 27.3 feet in
draught, and was propelled by triple expansion 3-cylinder engines (Rankin & Blackmore, Greenlock) providing
an output of 369 nhp to a single propeller. Sister ship to the Brescia
On 25 march 1917, the Vellore was sailing the Tyne-Alexandria route via Malta with a cargo of coal, when she
was attacked, torpedoed and sunk by U-63 (Otto Schultze) approximately 20 miles Northwest-by-North of
Alexandria
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