HMS Scylla
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HMS
Scylla was a Leander class frigate laid down at Devonport
Royal Dockyard, and launched in August 1968. She did
service for Royal Navy from 1970 to 1993 and was
thereafter laid up in Portsmouth. Ten years later she was
bought by The National Marine Aquarium and prepared to be
sunk as the first artificial reef in Europe. In the
afternoon 27. March 2004 she was sunk five hundred meter
outside Whitsand Bay, southeast of Cornwall. The reef is
called Scylla Reef today. The frigate rest today on her
keel as a classic Donald Duck wreck on a depth of 25
meter.
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500 19.64’ W 0040 .15.2’ ( Source: Dive Scylla ) ![]() Picture: HMS Scylla in 1989 Wikia, Public domain Last updated: January 2021 |
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