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Vessel
Type: | Brigantine
| Location: | Co.
Down | Date
of Loss: | 11th
January 1924 | Place: | Tara
Point | Cause
of Loss: | Struck
rocks | Boat
Dive from: | Portaferry
or Strangford | Charted
Depth: | 10m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 21 | Height
of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty
Chart No: | 2159 |
Hull
Material: | Steel | Latitude
(approx.): | 54°
37' 33" North | Type
of Seabed: | | Longitude
(approx.): | 05°
21' 55" West | Average
Visibility: | | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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available? | Yes
- see below
| Diving
Experience: | Experienced
Novice |
- Owned by Capt. Arthur Fielding, Southport, and built
in 1895 by Martenshoek of Holland, she measured 122.75 x 23.25 x 8ft., and grossed
310 tons.
- Was used as a "Q-Ship"
during W.W.I from 1916 - 18, whose function was to lure submarines close, then
fire on them with concealed guns.
- Known
as "Harley", "Helgoland", "Brig
10", and "Q-17" at various stages of the War.
- After the war she was sold
as a trader and eventual ended her days when she ran onto rocks, after dragging
her anchors while sheltering from a storm, on route Wexford for Port Ellen with
a cargo of barley for the Islay distillers.
- Captain and crew had to remain in the rigging all night
before being rescued.
- The vessel was
not insured.
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Photographer
unknown All
rights respectfully acknowledged
"Irish
Wrecks Database" | by | Roy
Stokes & Liam Dowling |
"Q-Ships
and their story" |
by | E.K.
Chatterton | Conway
Maritime Press 1972 - ISBN:
85177055X | "Shipwrecks
of the Ulster Coast" |
by | Ian
Wilson |
Impact Printing 1997
- ISBN:0948154993 |
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Last
update - 18-Jan-2005

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