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Vessel
Type: | 3
Masted Sail Ship | Location: | Co.
Cork | Date
of Loss: | 11th
April 1896 | Place: | Gokane
Point | Cause
of Loss: | Struck
rocks | Boat
Dive from: | Baltimore |
Charted
Depth: | 20m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 88 & 89 | Height
of Wreck: | 10m | Admiralty
Chart No: | 2129 |
Hull
Material: | Iron | Latitude
(approx.): | 51°
05' 00" North | Type
of Seabed: | Rocks | Longitude
(approx.): | 09°
10' 45" West | Average
Visibility: | 10
- 15m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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HERE | Image
available? | Yes
- see below
| Diving
Experience: | Experienced
Novice | - Lies
0.5 miles East of Gokane Point.
- Well
broken up.
- Note!!
A permit is needed to dive this wreck as it is over 100 years old.
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- A
3 masted iron barque, built for Hughes of Liverpool by Thomas Royden & Sons,
Liverpool in 1876, she grossed 1,274 tons.
- Hughes
operated her until 1895 and then sold her to H.R. Davies of Treborth, Bangor,
Co.Down.
- Bound San Francisco
for Queenstown with a cargo of wheat.
- She
struck Thige Mor Rock at Yokane Point near Lough Inne, just east of the Coastguard
Station at Barlogue.
- Her
commander Captain Williams and 20 crew were able to row ashore at Tralagogh.
- The
Second Mate was John Peter Lewis. He ended his career as old man in the Empress
boats of Canadian Pacific.
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©
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 |
Peter
Lewis | - | via
Email (2012) | Mike
Royden | - | via
Email (2012) | Aquaventures |
- | Internet
(2001 & 2003) |
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Last
update - 16-Jul-2012
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