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| Vessel Type: |
Brigantine |
Location: | Co. Antrim |
| Date of Loss: | 10th August 1856 | Place: | Rathlin Island |
| Cause of Loss: | Blown ashore | Boat Dive from: | Ballycastle |
| Charted Depth: | 10m | Irish O.S. Map: | Discovery Series No. 5 |
| Height of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty Chart No: | 2798 |
| Hull Material: | Wood | Latitude: | 55.16.48 North |
| Type of Seabed: | Sand and kelp | Longitude: | 06.11.35 West |
| Average Visibility: | 6 - 8m | Diving Experience: | Novice |
| No image listed. |
Diving Information:
- Several vessels came to grief in the same spot - Arkill Bay.
- Exact location not known as none of them have been identified.
- Subject to a 3 knot tidal current.
- Dive first three hours of ebb tide for slacker water.
- Most wreckage lies in 5 to 10m.
- There is a fee to use the slip at Ballycastle Harbour.
Historical Information:
- Owned by Stewart & Co. she was built in 1840 at Greenock and grossed 215 tons.
- Bound Greenock for Newfoundland with a cargo of sugar, she strayed off course because of a compass malfunction in a force 10 gale.
- Dropped anchor in Arkill Bay, a safe anchorage in West winds. However, the gale was blowing from the East.
- Her anchor cables snapped and she was driven ashore.
- Local islanders rescued the 13 crew and part of the cargo.
Source Publications:
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"Shipwreck
Index of Ireland"
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by
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Richard & Bridget Larn |
| Lloyd's Register - Fairplay Ltd 2002 - ISBN: 1900839970 | ||
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"Shipwrecks
of the Irish Coast 932 - 1997"
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by
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Edward J. Bourke |
| Edward J. Bourke 1998 - ISBN: 0952302713 | ||
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"Shipwrecks
of the Ulster Coast"
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by
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Ian Wilson |
| Impact Printing 1997 - ISBN: 0948154993 | ||
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"The
Harsh Winds of Rathlin"
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by
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Tommy Cecil |
| Impact Printing 1990 - ISBN: 0948154659 |
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Last update - 04-Mar-2003
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