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Vessel
Type: | Steamer
| Location: | Co.
Cork | Date
of Loss: | 13th
January 1925 | Place: | Shoota
Rock, Seven Heads | Cause
of Loss: | Struck
rocks | Boat
Dive from: | Courtmacsherry
or
Dunworly Bay | Charted
Depth: | 15m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 89 | Height
of Wreck: | 2m | Admiralty
Chart No: | 2092 |
Hull
Material: | Steel | Latitude
(approx.): | 51°
25' 57" North | Type
of Seabed: | Rocks
& kelp | Longitude
(approx.): | 09°
23' 01" West | Average
Visibility: | 10
- 15m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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HERE | Image
available? | Yes
- see below
| Diving
Experience: | Experienced
Novice | - There
is a slip at Dunworly Bay or it can be dived from the shore.
- Lies
30m from the shore at Shoota Rock at the West end of Travarra Bay.
- Largely
broken up.
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- Built
by W.A. Young & Co. in 1912, she grossed 3,994 tons, measured 350 x 50.8 x
25.6ft. and was powered by 241 nhp triple-expansion engines generating 9 knots.
- She
was owned by R. & H. Hall of Cork, she was bound for Cork from Rosario with
6,000 tons of maize.
- During
a severe storm se was smashed against the rocks. The wind blew some of her cargo
onto the top of the 150ft. cliffs and a 2 ton portion of her keel landed on a
ledge 40ft. above the sea.
- Her
commander, Captain John Bowen, and her 28 crew were lost.
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 "The
S.S. Cardiff Hall in a gale, 1922" ©
by kind permission of Mr.
Richard W. Parry , owner of the painting Artist
unknown - All rights respectfully acknowledged
"Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during
the Age of Steam 1824 - 1962" |
by | Charles
Hocking | London Stamp Exchange 1989 - ISBN: 0948130474 |
"Irish
Wrecks Database" | by | Roy
Stokes & Liam Dowling |
"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 |
Richard
W. Parry | by | Email
2007 |
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Last
update - 14-Nov-2007 
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