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Vessel
Type: | Steam
Coaster | Location: | Co.
Down | Date
of Loss: |
14th January 1942 | Place: | Cranfield
Point | Cause
of Loss: | Stranded
and wrecked | Boat
Dive from: | Kilkeel
| Charted
Depth: | 10m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series Nos. 29 & 36 | Height
of Wreck: | Broken
up | Admiralty
Chart No: | 44 |
Hull
Material: | Steel | Latitude
(approx.): | 54°
01' 03" North | Type
of Seabed: | Gravel
and sand | Longitude
(approx.): | 06°
01' 55" West | Average
Visibility: | 10
- 12m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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available? | Yes
- see below | Diving
Experience: | Experienced |
- Lies
1.25 miles South-East of Cranfield Point.
- Upright
and mostly intact.
- Covered
in seaweed and dead men's fingers.
- Dive
at Slack Water.
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- Built
in steel in 1918 by A. Jeffrey & Co., Alloa and was owned by Howdon Brothers
of Larne.
- She
measured 136.7 x 23.0 x 9.6 feet, and grossed 338 tons.
- She
had a single screw powered by a 2 cylinder compound engine which generated 75H.P.
- During
a voyage from Belfast to Newry with general cargo and bagged flour, she stranded
and was subsequently wrecked North of the mouth of Carelingford Lough.
- Her
bell has been recovered some years ago.
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©
by kind permission of photoship
web site "Irish
Wrecks Database" | by | Roy
Stokes & Liam Dowling |
"Shipwreck
Index of Ireland" |
by | Richard
& Bridget Larne |
loyd's Register - Fairplay
Ltd 2002 - ISBN: 1900839970 |
"Shipwrecks
of the Irish Coast 1105- 1993" |
by | Dr.
Edward J. Bourke |
Edward
J. Bourke 1998 - ISBN:
0952302705 |
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Museums NI (2020) |
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Last
update - 03-Jun-2020

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