Conch
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About this site
Concha, known locally as the Ore wreck, is a steamship wreck in the English Channel about 8 nautical miles south-east of Littlehampton. At 16 m it is one of the more shallow wrecks in the area.
Concha was a Belgian cargo steamer of 883 tons, built in 1877. She measured 64.98 m by 8.32 m by 5.09 m and had a two cylinder compound steam engine. She carried iron ore, and sank on 20 August 1897 after a collision with the steamship Saint Filians.
She is a broken coaster, with the boilers and engines still there to see, and iron ore lying about the site.
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Bib, pollack and conger eels live on the wreck, and there is plenty of life overall.
Marine life here
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Hydrallmania falcataReported here · unconfirmed
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