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Vessel
Type: | Super
Bulk Carrier | Location: | Co.
Cork | Date
of Loss: | 22nd
November 1986 | Place: | Toe
Head | Cause
of Loss: | Ran
aground in gale | Boat
Dive from: | Baltimore |
Charted
Depth: | 36m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 88 & 89 | Height
of Wreck: | 6m | Admiralty
Chart No: | 2129 |
Hull
Material: | Steel | Latitude
(GPS): | 51°
27' 51" North | Type
of Seabed: | Rocks | Longitude
(GPS): | 09°
13' 51.48" West | Average
Visibility: | 10
- 30m | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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HERE | Image
available? | Yes
- see below | Diving
Experience: | Very
Experienced | - Wreck
is huge - 900ft. long
- She
lies upright and is quite broken up
- Bow
is still intact.
- Possible
to descend directly into the hold without realising it.
- The
iron ore is in marble-sized granules.
- Launch
from Baltimore.
- Wreck
is owned by Sean Kent.
- Subject to strong currents.
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- Built
by Swan Hunter, Haverton Hill, in the 1970s, she grossed 89,438 tons and
measuered 294.13 x 44.19 x 25.01 metres.
- Is
the largest wreck in Europe.
- Was
carrying 165,000 tons of iron ore and 2,000 tons of oil from Seven Islands, Quebec
for the River Clyde.
- Ran
aground on the Stagg Rocks during a gale after losing steerage.
- She
had previously sheltered for a few days in Bantry Bay to repair cracks in her
decks before venturing out.
- The
28 crew were air-lifted off by the RAF, and her engines were left running in reverse
to try and dislodge her.
- The
Dutch tug "Smit Rotterdam" failed to tow her off.
- The
following Spring she broke in three and sank.
- The
vessel was worth £8.4m. and the cargo £2.7m.
- Her
1,200 tons of bunker fuel caused serious pollution in the area.
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by kind permission of Dr. Edward J. Bourke
548-Photo2.jpg)
"Kowloon
Bridge" sister ship "M.V. Derbyshire" via
Wayne Warner Click
HERE
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 | *source
- Geological Survey of Ireland | | Internet
(2020) | Aquaventures |
- | Internet
(2001) | Dom
McGlinchey | - | Dive
Ireland Conference 2000 | UK
Diving | - | Internet
(1999) |
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Last
update - 12-Nov-2020

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