Steam Coaster

• Hulk is still there, sitting upright, but badly broken up.
• Lies quite close inshore in Butterlump (local name Ballyfrench Bay.)
• Dive at slack water.

• Built 1913 by J. Fullerton Ltd, Paisley, for Joseph Fisher & Sons Ltd, Newry, she measured 168 x 25.5 x 10ft , trials speed 12 knots, grossed 470 tons.
• While on route from Ayr to Warrenpoint with coal in a snowstorm her cargo shifted while maneuvering and she capsized.
• Six out of 8 crew drowned.
• Occupants scrambled into port lifeboat only to be tipped into freezing water.
• The two who survived were Samuel Hanna and James McShane, who were hauled to safety by a Belfast collier "Ailsa Craig", which had arrived on the scene, and later transferred them to the Donaghadee lifeboat, after they witnessed the "Upas" go down.
• Captain McFerran was last seen standing high up on the tilting super-structure beside one of the useless starboard lifeboats.