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Vessel
Type: | Barque
| Location: | Co.
Down | Date
of Loss: | 15th
November 1914 | Place: | Ship
Rock, Ballyferris | Cause
of Loss: | Struck
Rocks | Boat
Dive from: | Groomsport |
Charted
Depth: | 7m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 15 & 21 | Height
of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty
Chart No: | 1753 |
Hull
Material: | Steel | Latitude
(approx.): | 54°
35' 00" North | Type
of Seabed: | Rocks
& kelp | Longitude
(approx.): | 05°
29' 00" West | Average
Visibility: | 5
- 10m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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HERE | Image
available? | Yes
- see below
| Diving
Experience: | Novice |
- Scattered
plates.
- Covered in kelp.
- Difficult
to realise that you are on the wreck.
- Inhabited
by quite a few Wrasse.
- There is a fee
to use the slip at Groomsport.
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- Built in 1889 by A. Hall &
Co., Aberdeen, she grossed 1,417 tons and measured 73.81 x 11.30 x 6.55m. and
was owned at the time of loss by G. Milne & Co.
- She
had a figurehead od a woman and her masts were painted yellow - the colour of
Milne'a fleet.
- During a gale she struck
and was wrecked on Ship Rock.
- She was
carrying a cargo of salt bound Belfast for Newcastle & Sydney.
- Crew
were rescued by Donaghadee Lifeboat.
- Captain
was W.F. Underwood.
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by kind permission of State Library of Victoria

Artist
unknown All
rights respectfully acknowleged
"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 Ulster Coast" |
by | Ian
Wilson
| Impact
Printing 1997 - ISBN: 0948154993 |
Davey
Martin | - | Castlereagh
SAC (1977) | Randal
Armstrong | - | Castlereagh
SAC (1978) |
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Last
update - 18-Jan-2005

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