Page "RMS Rhone" Paragraph 10

The ship sank swiftly, the bow section in eighty feet of water, the stern in thirty.

Of the original 146 aboard, plus an unknown number of passengers transferred from the Conway, only 23 people ( all crew ) survived the wreck.

The bodies of many of the sailors were buried in a nearby cemetery on Salt Island.

Due to her mast sticking out of the water, and her shallow depth, she was deemed a hazard by the Royal Navy in the 1950s and her stern section was blown apart.

Now, the Rhone is a popular dive site, and the area around her was turned into a national park in 1967.