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 500 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 approximately 25
meter.
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HMS
Scylla
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F 71
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372,0 x 43,0 x 15,0 f
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2790 displ
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Plymouth ( UK ) 1968
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