Troop Transport Ship

• Lies approx. 0.5 mile off Doon Bay on the East side of the island and is sitting upright but is starting to collapse.
• China with McBraynes monogram have been found in and around the wreck.
• Hold filled with chain by Navy as she was carrying rifles.
• The wreck is usually buoyed.
• Plenty of fish around.
• Best dived at slack water. Tide times are the same as Belfast.
• There is a fee to pay for using the slip at Ballycastle Harbour.
• Warning!! There is "live"ammunition lying around.

• Built 1898 by A & J. Inglis, Glasgow, as the "Vulture" for Burns & Laird's Ardrossan to Belfast run.
• Propelled by triple expansion machinery, 3 single ended oil fired boilers, installed by D & W Henderson in 1924. Length - 265.0ft x 33.5ft x draft 15.5ft; 1,670 gross tons; 367 net HP.
• In 1929 she was re-named as "Lairdstock". In 1937 she was finally re-named "Lochgarry" after purchase by David McBrayne Ltd.
• She was converted to a Government Transport ship and had previously been involved in Dunkirk evacuation.
• While on a trip from Glasgow to Oban to collect a group of soldiers bound for the Faroes she struck rocks off the Mull of Kintyre.
• Drifting and crippled, she finally went down off the East coast of Rathlin Island.
• Twenty-three men drowned when their life-boat was dashed against the rocks north of Doon Bay.
• Thirty-two survived.
• Screw removed by Karl Bialowas.