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Vessel
Type: | Anti-UBoat
Steam Drifter | Location: | Co.
Dublin | Date
of Loss: | 29th
August 1918 | Place: | The
Mugglins | Cause
of Loss: | Collision | Boat
Dive from: | Dun
Laoghaire | Charted
Depth: | 30m+ | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 50 | Height
of Wreck: | 2m | Admiralty
Chart No: | 1415
and/or 1468 | Hull
Material: | Steel | Latitude
(GPS): | 53°
16' 19.52" North* |
Type
of Seabed: | Hard
shingle | Longitude
(GPS): | 06°
03' 15.88" West* | Average
Visibility: | 3m
+ | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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Experience: | Experienced |
- Lies
upright in a South-East North-West direction and virtually intact 1.5 miles South
East of the Mugglins.
- Wheelhouse
is demolished and there is a large 2m gash amidships on the starboard side.
- Plenty
of fish, and congers under the keel.
- Discovered
in 1990 by Ivan Tunsted.
- The
deck gun was removed in 1990.
- 15
minutes from Dun Laoghaire.
- Best dived
1 hour before High Water/Low Water.
- NOTE.
Permission is required from "www.archaeology.ie/licences/divesurvey-licence"
to dive this wreck.
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- Built
in Aberdeen in 1907 as a Peterhead F.V. Drifter in 1907 by Hall, Russell &
Co., Aberdeen, she was converted into an anti-submarine coastal gunboat during
WW1.
- She grossed
100 tons and measured 26.31 x 5.63 x 2.76m.
- Power
was by a 2 cylinder compound steam engine generating 38 h.p.
- Her
Armament consisted of 1 x 6 pounder gun.
- Sunk
in collision while on patrol.
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for INFOMAR* Side-Scan image |
"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 |
*source
- Geological Survey of Ireland | - | Internet
(2020) | Marlin
SAC | - | Internet
(1999) |
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Last
update - 12-Nov-2020

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