Moidart . This vessel is an armed merchant steamship - or at least she was before her gun was lifted by divers from a special projects group led by Peter Cornish. The gun is being refurbished and preserved by the National Maritime Museum. The Moidart was torpedoed amidships. The stern is broken off and lying on its starboard side. The bow section is upright. A strange feature is thatone of her great anchors, instead of hanging on its chain downwards below her hawser ports, has somehow become lifted up and is hooked by one flooke over the gunnel directly above the stem. When you see this freak feature you can be sure you are diving the Moidart. She is some 30Oft long, and lies N.W./S.E. at a depth of 35 metres. She stands eight metres off the seabed.

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