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| Vessel Type: |
Barque |
Location: | Co. Antrim |
| Date of Loss: | 21st June 1815 | 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: | Wood | Latitude: | |
| Type of Seabed: | Rocks and kelp | Longitude: | |
| Average Visibility: | 5 - 10m | Diving Experience: | Novice |
| No image listed. |
Diving Information:
- Wreck lies at Cloch-a-duths and is scattered.
- Broken china, part of the cargo, litters the bottom.
- Dive the last two hours of flood tide.
- The bottom is covered in dense kelp, though the viz. is usually good.
- Possible the remains of another wreck lies in the same area.
- There is a fee to use the slip at Ballycastle Harbour.
Historical Information:
- The "Cumberland" was a full-rigged ship, built in 1800 at Whitehaven, and owned by a Glasgow company, she grossed 340 tons.
- Bound Jamaica for her home port of Greenock, with a general cargo, including coffee and rum.
- Becalmed in a smooth sea and strong tides, she drifted for two days finally striking a submerged rock during a strong flood tide.
- A Revenue Cruiser, "Wickam", commanded by Captain Fullerton, managed to take off Captain Thompson, the crew of 20, and some nine puncheons of rum, two bags of pimento, and three of coffee, before she sank.
Source Publications:
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"Shipwrecks
of the Irish Coast 932 - 1997"
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by | Edward J. Bourke |
| Edward J. Bourke 1998 - ISBN: 0952302713 | ||
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"Shipwrecks
of the Ulster Coast"
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by | Ian Wilson |
| Impact Printing 1997 - ISBN: 0948154993 | ||
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"The
Harsh Winds of Rathlin"
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by | Tommy Cecil |
| Impact Printing 1990 - ISBN: 0948154659 |
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Last update - 26-Sept-2000
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