The Curlew - Shipwreck Diving Bermuda
The Curlew left Halifax on March 14th, 1856, bound for Bermuda and St. Thomas. She was a 182-foot, three-masted English sailing steamer, 22 feet across the beam and had a displacement of 528 tons. By the early morning hours of March 17th she was off the northern coast of Bermuda fighting heavy seas. Despite all efforts, she ran aground on the reef eight miles north of St. Catherine’s Point, about a mile west of the Cristobal Colon.
The captain gave orders for the crew to abandon ship, but the seas were heavy and the weather poor; three of her four lifeboats were lost in the launching. The fourth was successfully put to sea and made it safely ashore where its crew raised the alarm. Two Navy ships were immediately dispatched to the Curlew’s aid and the rest of her crew, now clinging to the rigging for dear life, were taken off the ship.
Today, there’s not much left to see here. A victim of the incessant pounding of the breakers, she lies scattered on the reef in 35 feet of water a mile west of North Rock.
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