Wreck of SS Ben Dearg
United Kingdom
- Position
- About 35° S, 118° E (within about 10 km)
- Sank
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- Cause
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- Depth
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Protection status
Location generalised as a precaution
The position shown is generalised to within about 10 km. The exact position is not published.
The year of loss is not recorded, so its age and protection status cannot be verified.
How this was decided: Seadar's protection rules, from the sources we hold, confidence 50%. When in doubt, Seadar generalises the position.
SS Ben Dearg also known as the Thomas Alexander, Etoile Polaire, Daily Express and the Turcoman. The Castle-class trawler was originally built in 1920 for the United Kingdom Admiralty as the Thomas Alexander, and served most of its life as a trawler in French and English fisheries. It was renamed as Ben Dearg in 1936 and was requisitioned as a minesweeper in World War II in 1939 by the British Admiralty. The iron-hulled trawler arrived in Albany, Western Australia, in 1949. The single-screw steamer was coal burning, with a single-ended boiler that generated 180 lb per square inch of pressure of steam. Both Ben Dearg and the sister vessel Commiles were considered to be obsolete and unsuitable for fishing in the Great Australian Bight by 1951, and were looking for fishing grounds closer to Albany which they could trawl safely.
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