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The tampion plate was lying off the ship – and not directly beside either the forward A turret 7.5-inch gun, which was under the upturned fo’c’sle deck, or the port P turret 7.5-inch gun, whose open barrel protruded from debris at the side of the ship some way away, near the bridge. We talked it through and surmised that as the ship turned turtle on the surface and then sank, increasing water pressure had perhaps compressed the air in the gun barrel, driving the wooden plug up the barrel a short way and forcing the tampion plate to pop off and fall to the seabed.

During the debrief we were able to add many more features to our whiteboard recreation of the wreck – it was already starting to become a busy whiteboard.

The next day, we gathered in the saloon of Huskyan as we ran up the coast once again to the wreck site. Now that we had covered and filmed the whole wreck in overview, now that there were fixed downlines at the bow and stern, it was time to start looking at particular features in detail.