Masted Steamer

• Lies close to Coningmore Rock, to the south of the Saltee Islands.
• Hull has collapsed and is silted up.
• Some artifacts lying around, but must be reported to Receiver of Wrecks if lifted.
• Launch from slip at Kilmore Quay.
• Subject to strong currents outside slack water.

• Built by Palmer Brothers of Jarrow-On-Tyne for the Gunion Line, Liverpool, in 1869 she grossed 3,356 tons, length 354.3ft x beam 43.4ft, with a single screw and was capable of 11 knots. She had two masts rigged for sail.
• She was owned at the time of loss by the Liverpool & Great Western Steamship Company.
• Bound New York for Liverpool, she had left Queenstown with 63 passengers and 82 crew when she ploughed onto Coningbeg Rock in thick fog.
• All aboard were able to escape but 54 horses were lost.
• Wreck was located by Kilmore trawler "Guiding Star". Local diver James Kehoe recovered some portholes and in 1988 her anchor was raised and is now on the bow of the Guillemot Museum Ship at Kilmore.
• Her bell and a model of the ship can be seen in Kehoe's Bar, Kilmore.