SS Dunraven

British steam sail merchantman that struck the southern reef of Sha'ab Mahmoud in April 1876 carrying spices and cotton home from Bombay. She capsized within hours of the impact and sank in two pieces, settling upside down on a sandy slope outside the Ras Mohammed park boundary; local fishermen kept her location secret for a century before sport divers rediscovered her in 1977. The 80 m hull rises from 29 m at the broken stern to 15 m at the bow, with the propeller shaft and a single boiler still in place. A long swim through runs the inverted hold, exiting where the ship snapped in half, and the rusted plates host glassfish clouds, lionfish, blue spotted stingrays, moray eels and Dendronephthya soft corals.