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| Vessel
Type: | Steam
Coaster | Location: | Co.
Antrim | | Date
of Loss: | 13th
January 1916 | Place: | Islandmagee |
| Cause
of Loss: | Ran
aground | Boat
Dive from: | Ballylumford |
| Charted
Depth: | 6m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 9 | | Height
of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty
Chart No: | 1237 |
| Hull
Material: | Iron | Latitude
(GPS): | 54°
51' 07.44" North | | Type
of Seabed: | Rocks | Longitude
(GPS): | 05°
47' 21.30" West | | Average
Visibility: | 3
- 5m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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image available. | | Diving
Experience: | Novice |
- Lies in 3 - 6m and badly broken up.
- Lots of congers lurking in the wreckage.
- Access
from Ballylumford carpark.
- of ferries using the channel.
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- Built 1889 by Ritson & Co.,
Maryport, she grossed 367 tons and measured 46.73
x 7.34 x 3.30metres and was powered by a 60 h.p. 3 cylinder triple expansion steam
engine.
- Owned by Plisson Stam Nav. Co.
Ltd and rewgistered in Londonderry, she was leaving Larne with a cargo of potatoes
when a rope became entangled around her propeller.
- Before
she could drop her anchors, she ran aground on the extreme end of Ferris Point
where she became a total loss.
- Her crew
were rescued by breeches buoy.
- When she
finally broke up her cargo was strewn all over the Island’s shores.
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| "Shipwreck
Index of Ireland" |
by | Richard
& Bridget Larn | | Lloyd's
Register - Fairplay Ltd 2002 - ISBN: 1900839970 |
| "Underwater
Ireland Guide to Irish Dive Sites" |
by | Irish
Underwater Council |
| CFT 1999 - ISBN:
0948283025 |
| Peter
Steel | - | North
Irish Lodge, Islandmagee (1999) |
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Last
update - 24-Nov-2003
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