The extensive salvage and dispersal operations undertaken early in 1949 and in 1970 suggesting that only scattered small wreckage may remain.

Event and Historical Information:
The DEVONIA was enroute from Appledore to Avonmouth, in ballast, when it detonated as German mine on 28 October 1940 off Barry. The coaster subsequently foundered with the loss of three lives. The wreck was considered a navigational hazard within the Barry Roads and was dispersed using explosives in 1949. Additional wreckage was recovered in 1970. More recent surveys have failed to detect any large scale remains.

Sources include:
HMSO, 1988, British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-18 and 1939-45, pg 12
Larn and Larn shipwreck database 2002
Maritime records transferred from the English Heritage AMIE database, RCAHMW Collections.
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, June 2008.