SS Rosalie Moller

British coal freighter sunk in the early hours of 8 October 1941 by two Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111s, two days after the same bombers claimed her famous sister wreck SS Thistlegorm just 15 km away. Launched in Glasgow in 1910 as the Francis, the 108 metre hull sat hidden for nearly six decades until divers relocated her in 1998. She rests upright on a sandy seabed in the Strait of Gubal: masts at 18 m, main deck at 35 m, propeller and rudder at 50 m, holds still packed with the Welsh steam coal she was carrying to Alexandria. Silt off the surrounding sand keeps visibility around 10 to 20 m, lending the wreck a brooding atmosphere lit by glassfish swarms over bridge and engine room while batfish, schools of barracuda and resident grouper patrol the masts.