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Vessel
Type: | US
Navy Liberator aircraft | Location: | Co.
Kerry | Date
of Loss: | 27th
February 1944 | Place: | Skellig
Michael | Cause
of Loss: | Struck
mountain | Boat
Dive from: | Valentia
Island | Charted
Depth: | 10
- 25m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 83 | Height
of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty
Chart No: | 2125 |
Hull
Material: | Steel
& aluminium | Latitude
(approx.): | 51°
46' North approx. | Type
of Seabed: | Rocks
and sand | Longitude
(approx.): | 10°
32' West approx. | Average
Visibility: | 10
- 15m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
- CLICK
HERE | Image
available? | yes
- see below | Diving
Experience: | Novice |
- Reputed
to lie 100m West of Blue Cove under the cliffs.
- Valentia
Diving Centre can supply boats, air etc.
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- A
US Navy Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator bomber ,BuNo
- 63939 "H", Squadron VB-110 based at Dunkeswell Airfield in Devon, England.
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She struck South Peak and plunged into the sea.
- There
were no survivors.
- Her skipper was
Lt Williams 11KIA.
- Anything
found should be notified to the Salvage Association, and
the Dunkeswell Memorial Museum - http://www.usn-dunkeswell.org.uk/
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"Over
the Bay" - by George Koshiol © A
typical wartime USN Liberator based in the UK around 1944 ©
by kind permission of Dunkeswell Memorial Museum
Squadron
Emblem ©
by kind permission of Dunkeswell Memorial Museum
"Irish
Wrecks Database" | by | Roy
Stokes & Liam Dowling |
"Underwater
Ireland Guide to Irish Dive Sites" |
by | Irish
Underwater Council |
CFT
1999 - ISBN: 0948283025 |
Des
Lavelle | - | Valentia Diving Centre (1986) |
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Last
update - 10-Feb-2006
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