WRECK

[bliss2]

Anyone fished this one and is it any good and whats the best way to fish it and what you going to catch

 

[shytalk]

typical inshore wreck few pollack pout etc can be rather tackle hungry

[Bob F]

The Everleigh has apparently been extensively salvaged and was partly dispersed by the Navy, so she's quite broken up (hence the tackle hungry comment, I suppose).

 

However, she is still a pretty big wreck, and can therefore be popular with the divers, so check on the tides before going all that way out to her (14 miles from Poole).

 

She's lying in 43m of water on a rocky bed. Highest point comes up to about 11m off the bed. Lies east to west.

 

 

Bob F.

 

 

 

 

[sean]

This is taken from a divers guide "Dive Dorset"

 

Everleigh 50 29.3ON; 01 47.1OW.

The Everleigh is a large British steamship and became one of the last casualties of World War Two, sunk by a German torpedo fired by U?1017 on 6 February, 1945, when bound from London to New York. She measured 40611 with a beam of 56ft and was a massive 5,222 gross tons. She was built in 1930 and still has plenty of her brass fittings. The wreck is owned by a Swanage man who purchased her in about 1970 from her original owners. Although for a long period she was regularly worked for scrap, and before that was partly dispersed by the Navy, she is still a big wreck and an excellent dive. The sea bed depth is 43m, but the wreck stands up, at her highest, 11m off the sea bed. One reason why she remains so high is the solid rock bed.

When built, the ship was fitted out with a very large three?cylinder triple expansion engine capable of an output of 527hp. It is the area of her engine and boiler plant, situated just aft of midships, that has borne the brunt of the salvage operations, other sections of the ship remaining virtually intact. A 4in gun had been fitted, so somewhere are some nice 4in brass shell cases. She lies east?west on her port side, the bows facing east. Boats: Poole 14 miles, Swanage 14 miles.