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| Vessel Type: |
Full rigged Clipper |
Location: | Co. Dublin |
| Date of Loss: | 21st January 1854 | Place: | Lambay island |
| Cause of Loss: | Driven ashore | Boat Dive from: | Howth |
| Charted Depth: | 15 - 18m | Irish O.S. Map: | Discovery Series No. 50 |
| Height of Wreck: | 3m | Admiralty Chart No: | 1468 and/or 44 |
| Hull Material: | Iron | Latitude: | 53 28 54 North |
| Type of Seabed: | Rocks and sand | Longitude: | 06 01 12 West |
| Average Visibility: | 3 - 8m | Diving Experience: | Novice |
| Picture available? | Yes - click here |
Diving Information:
- In one piece, apart from being flattened and dismasted.
- The wreck lies 30m off the South-East corner of Lambay Island in a small indentation.
- It is possible to get into the galley.
- Cups and plates can be seen - mostly broken.
- Hold contains roof slates.
- Dive at any state of the tide.
- Permission to dive must be obtained from the Office of Public Works, National Monuments, 51 St. Stephen's Grenn Dublin.
Historical Information:
- Owned by the White Star Line, she was built in 1853 by the Bank-Quay Foundry Co. and cost £34,000.
- Measuring 250 x 40 x 21ft., she grossed 1,977 tons and was the largest sailing ship of her time.
- She had three decks and three masts.
- Bound Liverpool for Melbourne on her maiden voyage with 652 people on board, many of whom were heading for the goldfields.
- During a gale, and with visibility down to a few yards, she dropped 2 anchors when in lee of the shore. These promptly snapped and she then drifted onto the rocks.
- So close to the rocks was she, that people were able to jump ashore.
- However, she was washed out to deeper water and sank, taking with her 380 persons.
- She was the largest sailing ship ever built in Britain up to that time.
Source Publications:
| Bound for Australia (The loss of the Tayleur) |
by
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Edward J. Bourke |
| Edward J. Bourke 2003 - ISBN: 095230273X | ||
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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 Great Britain & Ireland"
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by
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Richard Larn |
| David & Charles | ||
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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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"Tayleur
- The First Titanic"
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by
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H.F. Starkey |
| Avid Publications 1999 - ISBN: 1902964004 | ||
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"White
Star"
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by
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R. Anderson |
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"Wreck
& Rescue on East Coast of Ireland"
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by
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John De Courcy Ireland |
| Glendale Press 1983 - ISBN: 0907606091 |
Other Sources:
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Diveireland
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Internet site (2000) |
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Last update - 24-May-2006
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