Steamer

• Lies between Hook Head and Kilmore Quay. (6 miles south-west of Kilmore Quay).
• Sometimes marked by a buoy.
• Well broken up. Boiler is on seabed. Propellor is still beneath the stern.
• Bow section is less intact.
• Loads of marine life including whiting, conger, wrasse, ling, lobsters, crabs and pollack.
• Beware of currents. Dive only at Slack Water.

• Built in April 1924 by the Ardrossan Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co Ltd, she was owned by the City of Cork Steam Packet Company.
• She measured 185 x 31ft powered by a triple-expansion engine with a single boiler and screw, and grossed 606 tons.
• On her thrird voyage she was enroute from Cork to Manchester & Birkenhead with a cargo of 200 sheep & cattle and goods for the Ford Motor Company.
• The ship developed a list and capsized after the cattle moved in the hold and the scuppers became blocked by fodder and cattle dirt.
• John Carley was the sole survivor out of 19 crew.
• Skipper was Captain Sayle.