The Clan Cumming was a cargo steam ship built in 1938 in Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd. Greenock in Scotland at the time was most famous for three things ships, steam, and sugar.  She was onwed by The Clan Line Steamers Limited and managed by the company “Cayzer, Irvine & Co. Limited”. The Clan Cumming sailed from Liverpool in December 1940 and made a stopover in Gibraltar together with several other ships in a well-protected convoy heading towards Malta and Piraeus. She arrived in Piraeus in January of 1941 with a cargo of ammunition. On the 6^th of April in 1941 a German air attack during the first day of the nazi invasion in Greece (codenamed Operation Marita) damaged the ship in the harbor, this attack also resulted in the Clan Fraser explosion. In the night of the 14^th to the 15^th of April 1941 she set sail for Alexandria and accidentally entered the Tourlos Phleves minefield where she hit a mine at its stern and sank. The Clan Cumming had a gross tonnage of 7,264 tons had a length of 141 meters and operated on steam turbine engines producing 1370 nhp.

The ship is resting on the sea bottom at a depth of 95 meters on its left (port) side at a 90-degree angle. The bow is located towards North whilst its stern towards the South. This is a particularly challenging dive not only due to the shipwreck’s depth, but the site of the wreck is situated in the middle of the busy shipping lanes on the approach to Piraeus Port. Due to this fact particular care needs to be taken in planning the dive. The parts our team visited and managed to film are situated in the mid-section of the ship. The current both at the surface and at the bottom where the wreck is situated was great during the dive. The line was almost in a horizontal position when the divers reached close to the wreck. Initially the team swam towards the stern of the ship then turned back, passed the down line, and headed towards the bridge. A total bottom time of 18 minutes was achieved with the use of travel gas to safely get the team to depth before switching to the bottom gas. Although not enough to fully explore this huge wreck in a single dive, it was an absolute joy and an impressive sight to witness the wreck due to its grand size. The sections our team visited are in good condition as also appears for the rest of the wreck. Visibility is not the best especially below 91 meters depth, the lower part of the ship is covered in a cloud of silt. As with all wrecks which have been sitting on the sea bottom for many years the sea has claimed her its own with most part of the ship now covered in benthos and full of marine life.