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Vessel
Type: | Large
Smuggling Cutter | Location: | Co.
Antrim | Date
of Loss: | 7th
November 1781 | Place: | The
Maidens | Cause
of Loss: | Struck
rocks | Boat
Dive from: | Ballylumford |
Charted
Depth: | 15m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 9 | Height
of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty
Chart No: | 2198
and/or 2199 | Hull
Material: | Wood
& Iron plating | Latitude
(GPS): | 54°
57' 03.24" North | Type
of Seabed: | Rocks | Longitude
(GPS): | 05°
44' 24.6" West | Average
Visibility: | 5
- 10m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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image available. | | Diving
Experience: | Experienced
Novice | - Lies
on the North side of Allen Rock.
- Badly
broken up.
- Rarely
dived. Artifact still to be found.
- Dive
30 mins. before High or Low Water at Belfast.
- Launch
from Ballylumford Harbour.
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- Loss
was reported in the London Chronicle.
- Was
250 tons burden, and armed with 16 guns.
- Had
a crew of 47, of which 31 were saved.
- Said
to have been laden with contraband from Gothenburg including 1,400 chests of tea,
100 chests of silk and 60 ankers of spirits.
- Reportedly
fought off a H.M. Revenue cutter, commanded by Captain Crawford, in the Bay of
Benluce only 8 weeks previously.
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| by | Roy
Stokes & Liam Dowling | "Shipwreck
Index of Ireland" | by | Richard
& Bridget Larn | Lloyd's
Register - Fairplay Ltd 2002 - ISBN: 1900839970 | "Shipwrecks
of the Irish Coast 1582 - 2000" | by | Dr.
Edward J. Bourke | Edward J. Bourke 2000 - ISBN: 0952302721 |
"Underwater
Ireland Guide to Irish Dive Sites" | by | Irish
Underwater Council |
CFT 1999
- ISBN: 0948283025 |
Peter
Steel | - | North
Irish Lodge, Islandmagee (1999) |
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Last
update - 17-Oct-2000
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