|
©
| |
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
(approx.): | 55°
17' 45" North | Type
of Seabed: | Rocks
and kelp | Longitude
(approx.): | 06°
17' 15" West | Average
Visibility: | 5
- 10m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
- CLICK
HERE | No
image available. | | Diving
Experience: | Novice |
- 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.
|
- 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.
|
| 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 932 - 1997" | by | Dr.
Edward J. Bourke
| Edward
J. Bourke 1998 - ISBN:
0952302713 | "Shipwrecks
of the Ulster Coast" | by | Ian Wilson |
Impact Printing
1997 - ISBN: 0948154993 |
"The
Harsh Winds of Rathlin" | by | Tommy Cecil |
Impact Printing
1990 -
ISBN: 0948154659 |
|
Last
update - 26-Sept-2000
|
|
|