Zulu Dive Club BSAC - Movie Night - The Loss of the Metta Catharina in 1786
Schedule
Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Royal Plymouth Corinthian Yacht Club | Plymouth, EN
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Our next Movie Night will The Loss of the Metta Catharina in 1786
Die Frau Metta Catharina von Flensburg was a brigantine, a two-masted sailing ship with the forward mast carrying square sails and the main mast carrying a fore and aft sail. The Catharina was built in 1782 at Rønshoved on the north shore of Flensburg Fjord, now in Denmark, and at the time of her loss carried 106 tonnes burden and had a crew of six. In December 1786 the Catharina was carrying a cargo of hemp and reindeer hide to Genoa from Saint Petersburg when worsening weather compelled her to seek shelter in Plymouth Sound. Unfortunately, on the night of 10th at about 10pm a south-westerly gale tore the Catharina from her anchorage towards Drakes Island, luckily it was high spring tide and the vessel was thrown over the rocks that lie between Drake’s Island and the Cornish shore. Miraculously the entire crew managed to escape before the Catharina sank in 30m of water under Raveness Point.
The wreck lay forgotten for nearly 200 years before the chance discovery of a bronze bell on the seabed in the Barnpool by members of Plymouth Sound BSAC in October 1973. The divers had been using swim lines to search the Barn Pool starting at Wilderness Point and heading south-south-east, looking for the remains of the Harwich, a 70 gun 3rd rate warship lost in the Barnpool in the same storm that sank the Coronation off Penlee Point, and a privateer called La Victoire. The markings on the bell were unusually helpful as they gave the name of a ship, the type of ship and the date she was built. As well as the bell the divers initially found an iron ring and a number of rolls of leather protruding from the seabed hinting that more may lie beneath the seabed.
You can read more here: https://shipsproject.org/Wrecks/Wk_Catharina.html
We have our Club Meetup Nights planned out till April. We are very excited to be holding some Movie Nights starting in January, where we can see the Lost Tales from The Deep of - Jacques Cousteau, Hans and Lotte Hass and Discoveries Underwater. There are some f the iconic shows that inspired many to dive.
Come along to a club night at 6:30pm and meet our members, chat about diving, have a drink (shhh our pints are only £3.00!!) or stop in for a movie later on around 7:30pm.
We look forward to meeting you!
Zulu Dive Club BSAC - British Sub-Aqua Club
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Royal Plymouth Corinthian Yacht Club, 25 The Parade, Barbican, Plymouth, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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