Irish Wrecks On-Line - Deliverer HMD (No. 253)

*Vessel Type:*	Anti-Submarine Steam Drifter	*Location:*	Co. Dublin
*Date of Loss:*	3rd November 1917	*Place:*	Bennet Bank
*Cause of Loss:*	Mined	*Boat Dive from:*	Dun Laoghaire
*Charted Depth:*	28m	*Irish O.S. Map:*	Discovery Series No. 50
*Height of Wreck:*	2m	*Admiralty Chart No:*	1415 and/or 1468
*Hull Material:*	Steel	*Latitude* *(approx.)*:	53° 21' 00" North*
*Type of Seabed:*	Sand	*Longitude* *(approx.)*:	05° 57' 00" West*
*Average Visibility:*	3m +	*Convert Lat. & Long.* to -	Decimal - CLICK HERE
Image avaiable?	Yes - see below	*Diving Experience:*	Experienced

Diving Information:

Lies 2.5 miles East of Bailey Lighthouse close to the Bennett Bank in a North-South (bow) direction.
Badly damaged and broken in two.
Stern half is mostly intact
Hatches are missing from the two port coal bunkers.
Deck machinery stil visible.
Plenty of fish etc.
Subject to shifting sands due to the current.
Best dived 1 hour before High Water/Low Water.
NOTE. Permission is required from "www.archaeology.ie/licences/divesurvey-licence" to dive this wreck.

Historical Information:

Built in Aberdeen in 1910 as trawler by Smith's Dock Co. Ltd, Middlesborough, she was converted into an anti-submarine coastal gunboat during WW1.
She grossed 79 tons and measured 24.38 x 5.48 x 2.61m.
Power was by a 2 cylinder compound steam engine generating 28 h.p.
Her Armament consisted of 1 x 6 pounder gun.
Thought to have been sunk by a German mine while on patrol. Another possibility could be the misfiring depth charge.

Click HERE for INFOMAR* Side-Scan image

Source Publications:

*"Irish Wrecks Database"*	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**

Other Sources:

*source - Geological Survey of Ireland

Internet site (2020)

Last update - 14-Nov-2020