Wreck dive on SS Shirala 23-08-26

CCR Dive on SS Shirala out of Shoreham Harbour. The SS Shirala was used to ferry passengers and cargo on scheduled routes to and from India. On 29th June 1918, she started her final voyage. She was bound for Bombay in India and fully loaded with 213 passengers and 5.000 tons of a very mixed cargo that included munitions, ivory, wine, marmalade, lorry parts, spares for model T cars, diamonds and sheets of paper from the Bank of England to be printed as Rupees. At 17.12pm, on 2 July 1918, the Shirala was four miles northeast of the Owers lightship vessel, when she was attacked by German U-boat UB-57, under the command of Johannes Lohs, a torpedo was fired, detonating amidships on the port side. Captain E. G. Murray Dickenson gave the order to abandon ship. All 213 passengers survived, but, sadly, eight out of the one hundred crewmen died when cold sea water came flooding into the stoke room and caused a secondary explosion upon contact with the hot boilers. I Found an Answer by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/