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| Vessel Type: |
Paddle Steamer |
Location: | Co. Antrim |
| Date of Loss: | 4th April 1849 | Place: | Rathlin Island |
| Cause of Loss: | Ran aground | Boat Dive from: | Ballycastle |
| Charted Depth: | 6m | Irish O.S. Map: | Discovery Series No. 5 |
| Height of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty Chart No: | 2798 |
| Hull Material: | Iron | Latitude: | 55.16.30 North |
| Type of Seabed: | Boulders and kelp | Longitude: | 06.12 West |
| Average Visibility: | 6 - 10m | Diving Experience: | Novice |
| No image listed. |
Diving Information:
- Lies at Skeir Bane, half a mile North of Rue Point and 20m from the shore in 6m of water.
- A guide is a large piece of metal on the beach opposite.
- Engine and some plating still there.
- Steam whistle, brass hatch hinges and china plates with the ship's name have been recovered by divers.
- Not subject to currents.
- There is a fee to use the slip at Ballycastle Harbour.
Historical Information:
- Owned by the North Lancashire Steam Navigation Co., she grossed 499 tons, and measured 160 x 25 x 13ft.
- Bound Londonderry for Fleetwood with passengers and cattle, she ran onto rocks during dense fog.
- Passengers and cattle were rescued.
- She broke up a few days later.
- Murray Brothers of Waterfoot. salvaged much of the copper and brass a few years later.
- Built in 1844 originally for the Fleetwood - Ardrossan route, she was re-scheduled January 1849 for the Fleetwood - Londonderry run.
Source Publications:
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"Shipwreck
Index of Ireland"
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by
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Richard & Bridget Larn |
| Lloyd's Register - Fairplay Ltd 2002 - ISBN: 1900839970 | ||
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"Shipwrecks
of the Irish Coast 932 - 1997"
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by
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Edward J. Bourke |
| Edward J. Bourke 1998 - ISBN: 0952302713 | ||
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"Shipwrecks
of the Ulster Coast"
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by
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Ian Wilson |
| Impact Printing 1997 - ISBN: 0948154993 | ||
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"The
Harsh Winds of Rathlin"
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by
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Tommy Cecil |
| Impact Printing 1990 - ISBN: 0948154659 |
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Last update - 24-Jan-2003
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