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Vessel
Type: | Steam
Coaster | Location: | Co.
Antrim | Date
of Loss: | 19th
December 1916 | Place: | The
Maidens | Cause
of Loss: | Ran
aground | Boat
Dive from: | Ballylumford |
Charted
Depth: | 15m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 9 | Height
of Wreck: | 2m | Admiralty
Chart No: | 2198
and/or 2199 | Hull
Material: | Iron | Latitude
(GPS): | 54°
55' 46.8" North | Type
of Seabed: | Rocks | Longitude
(GPS): | 05°
43' 33.18" West | Average
Visibility: | 8
- 10m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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Image
available? | Yes
- see below
| Diving
Experience: | Experienced
Novice | - Lies
on the North side of the East Lighthouse on South Maiden.
- Badly
broken up. Rarely dived.
- Dive
30 mins. before High or Low Water at Belfast, although the last of the flood tide
is best.
- Launch
from Ballylumford Harbour.
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- Built
1883 for John Fullerton & Co., Glasgow, she grossed 194 tons and measured
120.0 x 20.0 x 9.4ft.
- Powered
by a 2 cylinder compound engine by William King & Co., Glasgow.
- At
the time of loss she was owned by John M. Patton, Glasgow.
- Wrecked
while on a voyage from Ayr to Magheramourne with coal.
- The
crew were saved.
- Was
torpedoed off Salonica on 22nd January 1916, refloated and repaired - info
from John Snell whose father was onboard in Salonica.
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subject
to confirmation ©
by kind permission of
photoship
web site ![S.S. Norseman](../photos/Norseman647-Photo2.jpg)
Via
email from John Snell His
father was onboard when S.S. Norseman was torpedoed off Solonica earlier in 1916. All
external copyrights respectfully acknowledged ![S.S. Norseman](../photos/Norseman647-Photo3.jpg)
Same
photo without the frame. Via
email from John Snell All
external copyrights respectfully acknowledged
"Cambrian
Coasters" |
by | R.S.
Fenton | World
Ship Society 1989 - ISBN: 0905617525 | | by | Roy
Stokes & Liam Dowling |
"Shipwreck
Index of Ireland" |
by | Richard
& Bridget Larn |
Lloyd's Register - Fairplay
Ltd 2002 - ISBN: 1900839970 |
"Shipwrecks
of the Ulster Coast" |
by | Ian
Wilson |
Impact
Printing 1997 - ISBN: 0948154993 |
"Underwater
Ireland Guide to Irish Dive Sites" |
by | Irish
Underwater Council
| CFT
1999 - ISBN: 0948283025 | Peter
Steel | - | North
Irish Lodge, Islandmagee (1999) | John
Snell | - | Via
email (2007) |
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Last
update - 26-Sep-2007
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