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South of Q turret and the depression, the ship begins to reform – scattered large sections of plate and hull appear at first, before the tangled confusion of the innards of the battleship abaft P and Q turret appear. The sides of the ship with the vertical armour belt are gone – blown out and the armour plates salved. There is a large section of the port side of the ship, lined with a single row of portholes, which is angled back towards the stern and rests upright on the seabed.

Within the ragged outline of the ship as you move aft, the first of the sets of Babcock & Wilcox marine boilers start to be found. The boilers are more intact and stacked upon one another on the port side, whilst they are more distressed on the starboard side.

An upright bulkhead separates the boiler rooms from the turbine rooms. Of the two sets of Parsons steam turbines, the port side turbine is in good condition, barring the obvious scars of salvage work to free up the condensers. The turbines in the starboard set are shattered. This is the highest section of the mid part of the wreck, and moving out over free water to starboard, a long section of intact hull bottom leads aft over clean seabed towards the stern section. A number of 12-inch shells can be found on the seabed to starboard here.