| HMS Campania |
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Type : Liner converted into an auxiliary aircraft carrier
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Wreck Information : HMS Campania served with the admirality right up until November 5, 1918 - just six days before the armstice was signed, when she was involved in an accident in the Firth of Forth during high winds. The battle cruiser HMS Glorious had been blown from her anchorage, and at 3.45 am, her ram bow smashed into Campania, causing her to sink slowly by the stern. A few hours later an explosion - presumed to be a boiler - sent her to the bottom. Because of the shallowness of the water, she was considered a danger to shipping and destroyed by explosives in 1923. The wreck site today remains one of historical importance, and came under the jurisdiction of the Protection of Wrecks Act on 1 December 2001
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Harbour / slip:
Parking directions: parking ok at all sites
Distance to harbour:
Lat / Long: N56.03889 W3.22278
Chart: Tide Tables Admiralty SC734/ Imray C27
Depth: 2m
Tides: best
dived on neap tides slack water 1hr +/- HW/LW
Diveboat: Divebunkers RHIB MC Divings RHIB
Diveshop: Splash Sports Dundee Aquastars
Accommodation: Plenty
Experience: Sport diver and above
Other comments: Dive on high neap tides when there has been no Easterlies.
Pub: Inchview
Hotel
Created by: Stewart Russell
Date: 1/5/07
Thanks To: Stevie Adams for pictures and info.
Underwater photos:
Wreck diagram:
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Dive Report: Regthing, Aug 07 We headed off for the Campania. Once we where there we found ourselves being closely monitored by some local seals. After seeing previous reports of diving this wreck I wasn't expecting the viz to be that great but was more hopefully after what we had on the Archer. Stephen and I where the last down again and just as had entered the water one of the woman from the center surfaced and shouted over that one of the seals had buzzed the wreck and kicked up a lot of silt. We descended the line and instantly could see that the visibility was a lot worse. My fins actually hit a bit of plate sticking up behind me before I seen any of the wreck. Once we where there we where treated to another fine display of white and orange being tiptoed over by crabs. Again it was our job to fold up the grapple. By this stage I could no longer see Stephen as yet again he was leading and was looking for the grapple, I followed the line as it snaked through some plates but I ended up in a cloud of silt. The visibility at this point was so bad that I couldn't even read my computer with the backlight on . The awareness that I could easily be in an overhead situation struck me so I gave a three tugs on the line and got three back from Stephen so I headed back out of the cloud and waited for Stephen, when he re-emargered I signaled to head back up. Call me old fashioned but I like to see where I'm diving. So we headed up. I got beat at naughts and crosses on the safety stop :rolleyes: I didn’t feel so bad for calling the dive after Stephen told me that he realised that the weight block he found on the wreck turned out to be his which would have made for a more interesting ascent had he had less air in his cylinders.