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| Vessel Type: |
Steamer |
Location: | Co. Kerry |
| Date of Loss: | 23rd August 1916 | Place: | The Blaskets |
| Cause of Loss: | Foundered | Boat Dive from: | Dingle or Ventry |
| Charted Depth: | 45m | Irish O.S. Map: | Discovery Series No. 70 |
| Height of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty Chart No: | 2790 |
| Hull Material: | Steel | Latitude: | 52 05 58 North |
| Type of Seabed: | Rocks & kelp | Longitude: | 10 32 10 West |
| Average Visibility: | 10 - 15m | Diving Experience: | Experienced |
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Diving Information:
- Lies at Lochar Rock, north side of Great Blasket, in a westerly direction in a gully known as "Speir Cuas Faill Beag", in varying depths of 12 to 45m.
- The site is relatively sheltered from most winds.
- Covered in kelp.
- Boilers still recognisable. Plates etc. lying in gullies. A recoil spring from a ships gun is still visible.
- - Don't touch the live shells lying around.
Historical Information:
- Owned by Mercantile Steam Ship Co., built 1912 by W. Gray & Sons of West Hartlepool, she measured 377.5 x 53.5 x 25.4ft. and grossed 4,538 tons.
- She was powered by triple-expansion engines, generating 394nhp.
- Bound New York for Liverpool, the Quebra changed course to avoid a submarine after a sighting.
- A mist descended in the night and she ran onto treacherous rocks and sank.
- Cargo was meat, cotton, watches, flour, wire, brass sheeting/rods/bars and artillery shells.
- Navy cleared most of the live shells in 1984-85.
Source Publications:
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"Dictionary
of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam 1824 - 1962"
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by
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Charles Hocking |
| London Stamp Exchange 1989 - ISBN: 0948130474 | ||
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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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"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 Irish Coast 1105 – 1993"
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by
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Edward J. Bourke |
| Edward J. Bourke 1994 - ISBN: 0952302705 | ||
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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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Ralph
McBride
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Castlereagh SAC (1985) |
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Last update - 10-Feb-2006
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