Lost 1930 - Steam dredger (scuttled)
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The King George was a steam dredger built in Glasgow in 1910 and brought out to Bermuda in 1911, where she spent the next two decades deepening channels and harbours. By 1930 she had been overtaken by newer dredging plant and, rather than being broken up, she was taken out into the North Lagoon and scuttled, roughly five miles inside North Rock.
She settled upright on a sand bottom, and over the following decades became one of the island's better-known 'artificial' wrecks. NOAA's 2009 and 2011 Bermuda expeditions mapped the hull with multibeam sonar and used it as a reference site in the north lagoon.
The dredge sits upright and largely intact on sand at around 60 ft, so it suits divers with some experience (Advanced level recommended). The hull is heavily overgrown with sponges, soft corals and brain coral, and the superstructure gives plenty of shelter for fish. Visibility in the lagoon is usually lower than on the outer reefs (roughly 30-100 ft).