Minimum number of divers: 6
Max Depth - 27m
Tonnage - Unknown
Length - 79'
Date sunk - 11/09/1903
Type of vessel - Admiralty mooring lighter
How sunk - Rough seas
Former names - Unknown
Wreck height - 3m
Known locally as the Pin wreck due to the large bronze pins (bearing an admiralty mark) that held the vessel together. Martime archaeolists from Bournemouth University believe they have finally identified the shipwreck as an Admiralty mooring lighter (YC8).
Only found in the 1990s the wreck is largely flattened, with her boiler and machinery being the highest parts. There are 2 tanks in the aft section of the hull. Two anchors lie at the bow. One of them is partly buried.
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