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Somerset Coast

Wreck

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The National Monuments Record of Wales records Somerset Coast as Wreck. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Somerset Coast was a British steamship that sank in 1917 after striking a mine in the Bristol Channel. The wreck resulted in the loss of all 26 crew members and is remembered as one of the significant maritime tragedies of World War I in Welsh waters.

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