Liner

• Badly broken up and scattered over a wide area.
• Bow is detached and partly collapsed.
• Holes in the hull from the explosion, and from the salvage attempts, can be seen.
• Boilers are 5m high.
• Wreck is now owned by people in England, and diving on her privately is, officially, illegal.
• Previously, the best place to launch from was Port Salon.
• Marks or transits are currently not known.
• An ideal scooter dive.
• Dive High Water Belfast - 5.5 hours.
• Note!! Permission is required to dive this wreck.

• Owned by the White Star Line, she was built in 1908 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast.
• Weighing 14,892 gross tons, she measured 550.4 x 67.3 x 41.2ft., and was powered by two 3-cylinder triple-expansion turbine engines, generating 11,000 IHP giving a maximum speed of 18 knots.
• Commanded by Captain R.A. Norton, she struck a mine one hour after leaving Buncrana and sank in 45 mins, while acting as an armed merchant cruiser.
• Fifty-two officers and 316 ratings were saved.
• On board were 3,211 gold ingots each weighing 40lb.
• During the next 7 years and 7,000 dives, 3,189 ingots were recovered, leaving 22 (maybe) unaccounted for.
• There were no serious cases of the "bends" during those 7,000 dives.
• Her ships bell resides in the Protestant Church at Port Salon.
• One of her guns was salvaged by local divers and put on display on the pier at Downings Harbour.