Minimum number of divers: 10
Max Depth - 46m
Tonnage - 3764
Length - 210
Date sunk - 25 Nov 1917
Type of vessel - Steam Tanker
How sunk - Mined
Former names - None
Wreck height - 7m
Travelling from New York for Le Havre with 5000 tons of benzene when the Oriflamme is presumed to have hit a mine laid by UC-63. Despite a fire breaking out there were no casualties. The whole ship was ablaze. The ship was eventually sunk by gunfire as she was considered a hazard to navigation. Oil continued to seep from her well into the 1980s.
The wreck now lies on her starboard side. She sits in a scour on the seabed, and can be difficult to dive due to the fierce tides that run through there. Diving should be avoided on Spring tides.
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