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| Vessel
Type: | 3
Masted Fully Rigged Vessel | Location: | Co.
Dublin | | Date
of Loss: | 1st
January 1869 | Place: | 3
miles South of Kish Bank L.V. | | Cause
of Loss: | Ran
aground | Boat
Dive from: | Dun
Laoghaire | | Charted
Depth: | 10m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 50 | | Height
of Wreck: | 6m | Admiralty
Chart No: | 1415
and/or 1468 | | Hull
Material: | Iron | Latitude
(approx.): | 53°
16' 48" North* |
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of Seabed: | Sand | Longitude
(approx.)
: | 05°
55' 48"' West* | | Average
Visibility: | 5
- 10m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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HERE | | Image
available? | Yes
- see below | Diving
Experience: | Experienced
Novice | - Parts
of it are broken up but there is a large section of hull still intact.
- Plenty of fish, congers
etc. and lots of artifact laying around.
- Best
dived 1.5 before High/1 hour before Low Water.
- Subject
to heavy swells and strong currents due to lying in shallow water.
- NOTE.
Permission is required from "www.archaeology.ie/licences/divesurvey-licence"
to dive this wreck.
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- Built
by A. McMillan & Sons, Dumbarton in 1868, she grossed 1,348 tons, measured
196.9 x 65.5 16.4ft. and was owned by A.C. Gow of Glasgow.
- She was on
her maiden voyage to Bombay from Glasgow with a cargo of iron, coal ans spirits.
- Ran
aground on the Kish Bank due to a navigational error by the captain, Thomas Meiklejohn.
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*source
- Geological Survey of Ireland | - | Internet
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- | Internet
2020 |
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Last
update - 17-Jul-2020
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