Merchant Ship

• Identification confirmed by builder's plate.
• Sitting upright in a South-North direction.
• 50m to the collapsed bridge, 39m to the top of the forward mast.
• Some rigging still there.
• Lots of artifact lying about.
• Boats can be easily launched at the Whitehead slip during the High Water period (2 hours either side of High Water). The slip is left almost exposed at Low Water.
• Alternatively use Groomsport slipway at the other side of the Lough.
• Dive 1 hour to 45 mins. before High Water Belfast.
• Clear water, usually, but sometimes very, very dark.
• Warning!! There are monofilament nets snagged near the bridge.

• Built in 1913 by Northumberland Ship Building Co. she was originally named "Frimley", she was purchased by the Anchor Line in 1916, and re-named.
• She was powered by triple-expansion engines, giving her a speed of 10 knots and   measured 404.9 x 53.1ft wide and grossed 4,880 tons.
• She also had electric lighting.
• She was torpedoed 1.5 miles East of Black Head, probably by U-19, which claimed to have sunk a 3,000-ton steamer off Belfast that day.