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Vessel
Type: | Cargo
Steamer | Location: | Co.
Dublin | Date
of Loss: | 5th
May 1918 | Place: | Lambay
Island | Cause
of Loss: | Ran
ashore | Boat
Dive from: | Howth |
Charted
Depth: | 7
- 12m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 50 | Height
of Wreck: | 2m | Admiralty
Chart No: | 1468
and/or 44 | Hull
Material: | Iron | Latitude
(approx.): | 53°
29' 45" North | Type
of Seabed: | Scree
and rocks | Longitude
(approx.): | 05°
59' 45" West | Average
Visibility: | 10
- 15m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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HERE | Image
available? | Yes
- see below
| Diving
Experience: | Novice |
- Lies
to the South-West of Carrickdorish Rocks.
- 2
Boilers, a cabin structure, decking plates and ribs remain.
- Some
4" shells can still be found.
- Don't
touch any cheese-like substance as it could be phosphorous!
- Dive
at any state of the tide.
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- Built
in 1879 in Scotland by Inglis & Co. for Lairds, she measured 70.46 x 9.52
x 4.69m. and grossed 815 tons.
- She
was powerd by a 2 cylinder compound steam engine which generated 274 h.p.
- Was
part of the Dublin to Glasgow service.
- Ran
aground and eventually broke her back.
- Hammond
Lane & Co. salvaged her down to the waterline.
- Her
cargo was munitions and horses.
- The
horses swam ashore, and the thirty people aboard were rescued.
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©
by kind permission of Dr. Edward J. Bourke

©
by kind permission of Dr. Edward J. Bourke
"Irish
Wrecks Database" | 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 1105 - 1993" |
by | Dr.
Edward J.
Bourke |
Edward
J. Bourke 1994 - ISBN: 0952302705 | "Underwater
Ireland Guide to Irish Dive Sites" | by | Irish
Underwater Council | CFT
1999 - ISBN: 0948283025 |
"Capital
Diving" Article by James Scallon |
by | SubSea
Magazine Summer 2010
| ISSN
0791-475X No. 137 |
Diveireland |
- | Internet site (2000) |
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Last
update - 13-Sep-2013

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