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| Vessel
Type: | 4
Masted Square Rigger | Location: | Co.
Antrim | | Date
of Loss: | 1st
January 1827 | Place: | Islandmagee |
| Cause
of Loss: | Ran
aground | Shore
Dive from: | Brown's
Bay | | Charted
Depth: | 5m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 9 | | Height
of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty
Chart No: | 1237 |
| Hull
Material: | Wood | Latitude
(GPS): | 54°
51' 13.26" North | | Type
of Seabed: | Rocks
and sand | Longitude
(GPS): | 05°
46' 11.22" West | | Average
Visibility: | 5
- 10m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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image available. | | Diving
Experience: | Novice |
- Lies
in Brown's Bay, badly broken up in 3 to 5m of water.
- Rarely
dived.
- Large anchor located on South
West side of Brown’s Bay.
- Access
from the shore.
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- A
four masted square rigger, she was bound Greenock for Havana with a cargo of coal.
- She
was swept into Brown’s Bay during a gale and broke up several days later.
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"Shipwrecks of the Ulster Coast" | by | Ian
Wilson | | Impact Printing 1997 - ISBN: 0948154993 |
| "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 - 15-Jan-2002
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