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Vessel
Type: | Steam
Collier | Location: | Co.
Down | Date
of Loss: | 9th
November 1923 | Place: | Groomsport
| Cause
of Loss: | Ran
aground | Boat
Dive from: | Groomsport |
Charted
Depth: | 6m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 15 | Height
of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty
Chart No: | 1753 |
Hull
Material: | Steel | Latitude
(approx.): | 54°
41' 06.5" North | Type
of Seabed: | Mud,
silt & rocks | Longitude
(approx.): | 05°
35' 44.5" West | Average
Visibility: | 3
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No
image listed. | | Diving
Experience: | Novice |
- Lies
approx 600m offshore on Briggs Reef.
- Completely
broken up.
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- Built
1922 by Alexander Hall & Sons, Aberdeen, for John Kelly Ltd., Belfast.
- She
grossed 315 tons and measured 41.3 x 6.8 x 2.9 metres.
- Powered
by a 3 cylinder triple expansion engine which produced 68 net h.p.
- On
a voyage from Maryport to Belfast with a cargo of coal she holed herself on Briggs
Reef and stuck fast.
- The
crew were rescued by Donaghadee Life-boat.
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"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 Ulster Coast" | by | Ian
Wilson | Impact
Printing 1997 - ISBN: 0948154993 |
Royal
Navy | - | Hydrographic
Department (1970) | | - | Internet
2020 |
| Last
update - 29-Jun-2020
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