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Vessel
Type: | Motor
Trawler | Location: | Co.
Wexford | Date
of Loss: | 13th
November 1989 | Place: | Baginbun
Head | Cause
of Loss: | Sunk
in collision | Boat
Dive from: | Slade
Harbour | Charted
Depth: | 26
- 29m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 76 | Height
of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty
Chart No: | 2046
and/or 1410 | Hull
Material: | Wood
& steel | Latitude
(GPS): | 52°
08' 27.36" North | Type
of Seabed: | Sand
and shale | Longitude
(GPS): | 06°
47' 28.38" West | Average
Visibility: | 20m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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HERE | No
image available. | | Diving
Experience: | Experienced |
- Lies
3 miles South-East of Baginbun Head.
- Lies
on her starboard side but is badly broken up.
- Steel
wheelhouse, engine and winch are still recognisable.
- Inhabited
by congers and loads of fish.
- Best
dived at Slack Water.
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- Owned
by Oliver Tallon, Clogherhead, she was built in 1989 by the Maritem Boat Yard,
Cork and was 68ft. long.
- She
was fishing for herring in fog when she collided with MFV Speckled Fort
and sank in 13 minutes.
- The
prop was salvaged in 1990.
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"Irish
Wrecks Database" |
by | Roy
Stokes & Liam Dowling
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"Shipwreck
Index of Ireland" |
by | Richard
& Bridget Larn | Lloyd's
Register - Fairplay Ltd 2002 - ISBN: 1900839970
| "Shipwrecks
of the Irish Coast 1105 1993" | | Dr.
Edward J. Bourke |
Edward J. Bourke
1994 - ISBN: 0952302705 |
SubSea
Article - Spring 2008 |
by | Vincent
Furlong, Hook SAC | CFT
SubSea Magazine ISSN: 0791-475X |
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Last
update - 26-Feb-2008
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