Identified – A Spritsail Barge – The Outsider [+1922]
We spotted wooden gunwales with an alien like mound of what we thought were rocks. It’s got to be, we have found the missing Outsider!
We spotted wooden gunwales with an alien like mound of what we thought were rocks. It’s got to be, we have found the missing Outsider!
Built in 1654 and owned by the Admiralty of Rotterdam, the Klein Hollandia was lost in an engagement in the English Channel in 1672.
Arriving on site, Chris surveyed the area and confirmed a mark around 2m high. It was certainly a wreck of sorts and worth a plunge.
Laying at around 55 metres to the seabed, she looks like a ship, is intact and fully upright with her upper decks laying around 42 metres.