Firth Fisher (aka Castlereagh)

Type of vessel - Steam Coaster

How sunk – Floundered in heavy seas

Former names – Firth Fisher

Wreck height - 5m

This wreck was positively identified when the bell was found by a diver in 1967 with the name 'Firth Fisher'. When she sank she was named Castlereagh although she is known locally as the ‘Firth Fisher’. The vessel was last seen transporting a consignment of coal along the South coast where she was reported lost after being sighted off Prawle Point in South Devon. On March 1 1925 two bodies were washed up at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight.

Her bows stand 5 metres off the bottom, but her stern is rather more broken. Around the wreck the seabed consists of rocky ground. She is only 500m from the Kyarra and is upright, almost intact and always full of fish.

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Wreck Tour: 137, The Castlereagh

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