Rédéris Plongée | Banyuls-sur-mer

L'Alice Robert alias "Le Bananier"

Length : 95 meters.
Width : 15 meters.
Depth : 25 m (beginning) - 50 m (bottom).
Accessible from level 2.

Built in 1934, this cargo ship ensured the rapid fruit transport for 5 years between the French colonies and the ports of Bordeaux and Nantes. In October 1942, the Germans requisitioned him to assign him as a fast escort and they armed him with two guns to fight the allied aviations and submarines. From May 1943, he made escort missions of the German maritime traffic on the coasts of Italy and will be torpedoed in June 1944 by the British submarine "HMS Ultor (P53)".

Broken in half, 1/3 of the rear of the ship rests about 150 m further. It is the most diving wreck of the Catalan coast, it is very fishy and rich in fixed wildlife.

L'Astrée

Length : 87 meters.
Width : 13 meters.
Depth : 38 m (beginning) - 47 m (bottom).
Accessible from level 2.

Built in England in 1921, this coal ship was assigned in 1933 to the colonial lines of North Africa. It was converted back into a cargo ship in 1939 and then torpedoed by the British submarine "HMS untiring (P59)" during the Second World War.

Also full of fish, it has openings large enough to explore the interior.

Le Saumur

Length : 108 meters.
Width : 13.5 meters.
Depth : 35 m (beginning) - 48 m (bottom).
Accessible from level 2.

Built in 1920 in Scotland, the Saumur is first a coal ship then it will be assigned to the colonial lines. In December 1942, he passes to the hands of the Germans who tranfer to Italy. In May 1944, the Saumur was torpedoed by a British submarine, the "HMS Upstart (P65)". The Saumur is the largest wreck of the region.

Broken in two parts, the back is lying while the front is placed straight, you can also watch his machine guns.

Le Saint Lucien

Length : 80 meters.
Width : 11 meters.
Depth : 32 m (beginning) - 40 m (bottom).
Accessible from level 2.

This ship originally bears the name of the Danish city where it was built in 1920, Aalborg. When it was seized in Leith (Scotland) in 1940, it was transformed into cargo ore (coal) that sails between France and North Africa. He is renamed Saint Lucien in 1941. In 1943, when the ship was brought back under German control, it was the first victim of the Royal Navy submarine named "HMS Unruly (P49)". It is sunk at the tip of Cape Bear.