The seabed retains the scarring associated with the recovery of wreckage, believed to have been part of the STROMBUS possibly the forecastle mentioned below.

Event and Historical Information:
The STROMBUS was a whale processing ship built by Armstrong & Whitworth Co, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in 1900. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 6549gt; 3917nt; 410ft length x 53ft 1in breadth x 32ft 2in depth; 2 decks, 4 bulkhead, passenger deck 100ft, boatdeck 20ft, forcastle 56ft; screw propulsion powered by 4 steam boilers linked to a triple expansion engine producing 654hp; machinery aft by North East Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Newcastle. At time of loss on 26 October 1940, the vessel was owned by A/S Sevilla, Onesimus, and was enroute from Swansea to Antartica. The ship detonated a German laid mine. The Mumbles lifeboat attended the scene and tugs towed the vessel back into Swansea where it was beached. On 12 November 1942, the ship was taken to Briton fery for breaking, but the forecastle broke adrift and sank on the way.

Sources include:
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
UK Hydrographic Office Wrecks and Obstructions Database. ? Crown Copyright and database rights. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the UK Hydrographic Office (www.ukho.gov.uk).

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, February 2009.