RMS Egypt
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Egypt
was a steam ocean liner laid down by Caird & Company
in Greenock, and was launched in1897 for P.O Steam
Navigation Companyin London. She was requisitioned by
Royal Navy after the outbreak of World War One, and used
as ahospital ship in the Mediterranean.She was returned to
her owners in 1920. Under a journey from Tilbury to India loaded with gold,
silver and passengers she collided with the steamer Seine in
the English Channel 20. May 1922. She disappeared in the
deep twenty minutes later, and 86 people lost their
lives. Because of her valuable cargo there was a strong
interest to salvage the cargo. But first they had to
actually find the wreck. This was not done before 1930,
and two years later the salvage work could start. A new
techniques was invented more or less over night and they
started using armored diving suits. From 1932 to
1935 they managed to rescue nearly all her precious
cargo. The wreck was inspected in 2001 and 2006 by
technical divers who noted that the wreck in large parts
were totally collapsed. The battered wreck rest today on
a depth of 100 to 127 meter approximately 25 nautical miles outside
the island of Ushant.
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 Courtesy of Pandosnco Last updated: May 2018 |
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