The BeaumarisCastle - Shipwreck Diving Bermuda
The BeaumarisCastle lies in 25 feet of water on the outer
edge of the reef some two miles east of St. Catherine’s Point.
She was an English steel-hulled sailing ship built in Glasgow,
Scotland, in 1864. Beaumaris Castle was 202 feet long,
36 feet across the beam, and displaced just over 1,000 tons.
She ran aground carrying a cargo of jute and linseed oil on April 24th, 1873, while en route from Calcutta, India, to New York. Within hours, a number of small boats had rushed to offer assistance. Unfortunately, they could do little for the stricken ship other than rescue the crew and salvage a little of her cargo. Coincidentally, units of the Coast Wrecking Company of New York were, at the same time, operating in Bermudian waters, and they were called in to refloat the ship. The weather, however, held up operations until early June, when powerful pumps were installed in the ship’s holds. The salvage operations were abandoned when a crew member, overcome by gasses while trying to clear a clogged pump, died, and three others, including the captain, were also overcome and had to be taken ashore. Slowly, over the years, the wreck deteriorated to her present condition, a scattering of bits and pieces on the northern side of Mill’s Breakers.
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