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| Vessel Type: |
Dutch Motor Coaster |
Location: | Co. Antrim |
| Date of Loss: | 20th January 1942 | Place: | Belfast Lough |
| Cause of Loss: | Collision at sea | Boat Dive from: | Whitehead or Bangor |
| Charted Depth: | 43m | Irish O.S. Map: | Discovery Series No. 15 |
| Height of Wreck: | 9m | Admiralty Chart No: | 1753 |
| Hull Material: | Steel | Latitude (GPS): | 54 42.708 North |
| Type of Seabed: | Sand and silt | Longitude (GPS): | 05 31.811 West |
| Average Visibility: | 5 - 10m | Diving Experience: | Very Experienced |
| Picture available? | Yes - click here |
Diving Information:
- Lies in a West-East direction on her port side.
- Extensive damage to starboard side forward of the bridge.
- 34m to highest part, 43m to seabed.
- Quite a few portholes left.
- Launch from Whitehead up to 2 hours either side of Low Water or Bangor at any time.
- Dive 30 mins before High Water Belfast as it is subject to strong tides at other times.
Historical Information:
- Built 1939 by De Haan & Oerlemans Scheeps-Bwf, Heusden, Netherlands, she grossed 395 Tons and measured 53.82 x 8.43 x 2.33m.
- Powered by an 8 cylinder oil engine generationg 94 h.p.
- Bound Liverpool for Belfast with general cargo of foodstuffs, batteries, copper piping and anti-aircraft gun parts.
- Collided with steam tanker "British Engineer".
- Suffered extensive damage to starboard side and sank very quickly.
- Two crew were lost.
Source Publications:
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"Irish
Wrecks Database"
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by
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Roy Stokes & Liam Dowling |
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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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"Underwater
Ireland Guide to Irish Dive Sites"
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by
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Irish Underwater Council |
| CFT 1999 - ISBN: 0948283025 |
Other Sources:
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Willem Vanvoorst | |
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Peter
Steel
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North Irish Lodge, Islandmagee (1998) |
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Vic
Foster
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Castlereagh SAC (1996) |
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Last update - 20-Mar-2006
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