A deep wreck diver has shown his incredible footage inside a torpedoed ocean liner that once took King George V to India.
Dominic Robinson, a former Army Officer and military helicopter pilot, entered it.
Dominic could be seen going inside the RMS Medina’s dining room and encountering remarkably intact rows of seats.
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Although the backs of the chairs are no longer there, the seat bases remain more than a century after the sinking.
The footage also shows how Dominic came across a porcelain bowl, intact wooden decking, and heating pipes.
The artefacts remain in the wreck, despite a professional salvage in the late 1980s that saw a silver crockery haul removed.
The wreck lies off Start Point, close to Dartmouth, Devon.
Dominic told Need To Know that the Medinas’ “scale and level of preservation are unusual for the English Channel”.
He said: “As a first-class liner, and a former Royal Yacht used to transport King George V to India, everything on board is the highest possible quality.
“Despite being commercially salvaged, and the contents auctioned at Sotheby’s, it is still possible to find all sorts of interesting artefacts, including P&O-branded crockery and cutlery.”
In Dominic’s footage, it is possible to see a remaining pillar holding up the dining room ceiling.
Over time, the remaining pillars will collapse and the floor will be flattened, like other floors above it.
The Medina made its maiden voyage in November 1911, five months before the sinking of the Titanic.
Five crew members died when it was torpedoed by a German Imperial Navy U-boat in April 1917.
Luckily, the passengers had already disembarked in Plymouth when the disaster unfolded.
Unlike the Titanic, the vast majority of the 550-ft-long vessel was given over to first-class passengers.
Dominic said about the remarkable rows of chairs: “It’s mind-blowing when you think who may have sat on them!”
He added: “Looking at the old photos makes you appreciate how opulent it once was, so it is incredible, and sad, to see it now after over 100 years of decay.”
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