RMS Rhone 1867
Marker: recorded wreck position (Steam era).
Key facts
| Name | RMS Rhone | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Year lost | 1867 | English Wikipedia lead text (year following a loss verb, parsed) |
| Era | Steam era | derived from year |
| Ship type | passenger vessel, steamship | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Cause of loss | Storm or weather | Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence |
| Nationality / flag | United Kingdom | Wikidata P8047 country of registry |
| Operator | Royal Mail Steam Packet Company | Wikidata P137 operator |
| Sea / ocean | Caribbean Sea | Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon |
| Nearest coast | British Virgin Islands | Natural Earth (public domain); approx. 8 km from land |
| Position | 18.3687, -64.5356 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
RMS Rhone was a UK Royal Mail Ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP). She was wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands on 29 October 1867 in a hurricane, killing 123 people. She is now a popular Caribbean wreck dive site.
Diving & visiting
Rhone is now a popular dive site, and the area around her was turned into a national park in 1980.
Rhone has received a number of citations and awards over the years as one of the top recreational wreck dives in the Caribbean, both for its historical interest and teeming marine life, and also because of the open and relatively safe nature of the wreckage. Very little of the wreckage is still enclosed, and where overhead environments do exist, they are large and roomy and have openings at either end permitting a swim through, so there is no real penetration diving for which divers usually undergo advanced training.
Location
- Recorded position: 18.3687, -64.5356 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Sea / ocean: Caribbean Sea
- Nearest coast: British Virgin Islands
Wreck positions on this site are for interest only and are not for navigation. Many wrecks are war graves or legally protected: never disturb human remains or remove artefacts, and check local law before diving.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article RMS Rhone (revision 1327256500), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section and section(s) “As dive site”; condensed by selecting paragraphs; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
Wreck facts from Wikidata (CC0).
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