SS Clan Monroe

The dive site SS Clan Monroe is an inshore rocky reef with a historical wreck in the South Peninsula area on the Atlantic Seaboard of the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The Clan Monroe was a British turret steamer and sister ship to the SS Clan Stuart, which was wrecked on the other side of the Cape Peninsula at Simon's Town, only 11km away as the crow flies. This is all the more remarkable as there were only about 6 ships of this type built. The site is shallow, and the bottom is flat sandstone reef. The dip is almost horizontal, and the bedding is quite thin, so the steps are usually about 0.3 to 0.5m high, and depressions of similar depth. There are occasional outcrops about a metre high, but the anchor and chain mound stand up higher than anything else nearby.