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Vessel
Type: | Salvage
Ship | Location: | Co.
Antrim | Date
of Loss: | 28th
September 1921 | Place: | Rathlin
Island | Cause
of Loss: | Struck
Rocks | Boat
Dive from: | Ballycastle |
Charted
Depth: | 8m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 5 | Height
of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty
Chart No: | 2798 |
Hull
Material: | Steel | Latitude
(approx.): | 55°
17' 30" North | Type
of Seabed: | Boulders
and kelp | Longitude
(approx.): | 06°
17' 00" West | Average
Visibility: | 5
- 10m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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HERE | Image
available? | Yes
- see below
| Diving
Experience: | Novice |
- Lies
at the same site as "Knights Gareth" at Tolovney.
- Wreckage
of both vessels scattered about.
- Largest
object is a boiler.
- Her
steel propeller is in a cave opposite.
- Little
or no current in the area.
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- Owned
by North of Ireland Marine Salvage Co., she was built in 1879 by H.M.Dockyard,
Pembroke.
- She
grossed 126 tons and measured 87 x 26 x 9ft.
- Served
as a submarine tender, supply boat, and gunboat.
- Reputed
to have been involved in relief of General Gordon on the Nile.
- Was
carrying out salvage work on "Knights Gareth".
- Her
anchor cables snapped while all the crew were ashore at a ceilidh, and struck
the rocks above the "Knights Gareth" site.
- No
lives were lost.
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©
by kind permission
of George Robinson - RIVERSEA
web site | by | Roy
Stokes & Liam Dowling | "Shipwreck
Index of Ireland" | by | Richard
& Bridget Larn | Lloyd's
Register - Fairplay Ltd 2002 - ISBN: 1900839970 |
"Shipwrecks
of the Irish Coast 1105 - 1993" | by | Dr.
Edward J. Bourke
Edward J. Bourke 1994 - ISBN:
0952302705 |
"The
Harsh Winds of Rathlin" | by | Tommy
Cecil |
Impact Printing 1990 - ISBN:
0948154659 | |
Last
update - 03-Apr-2006
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