Liner

• Lies 11.8 miles South of Old Head of Kinsale.
• Bow points in a North North-East direction and she lists to starboard.
• Badly broken up.
• Bell was recovered in 1983 and is on display in the Imperial War Museum.
• NOTE. Permission is needed to dive this wreck from the owner Greg Bemis, and Office of Public Works.

• A Cunard liner, she was built in 1907 by John Brown & Co. Ltd. of Glasgow.
• She grossed 30,396 tons and measured 232.31 x 26.72 x 17.22 metres.
• Driven by four massive turbine powered triple-bladed propellors she was capable of 25 knots, and held the Blue Ribbon for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic for three years.
• Bound Liverpool from New York, she was torpedoed by U-20 commanded by Lieutenant Schwieger .
• Cargo included passengers, explosives and shells.
• She sank in 18 minutes. 1,195 lives were lost.