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Vessel
Type: | Cargo
Steamer | Location: | Co.
Cork | Date
of Loss: | 17th
November 1896 | Place: | Mizen
Head | Cause
of Loss: | Struck
rocks | Boat
Dive from: | Crookhaven
or Schull | Charted
Depth: | 24m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 88 | Height
of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty
Chart No: | 2184 |
Hull
Material: | Steel | Latitude
(approx.): | 51°
28' 05" North | Type
of Seabed: | Rocks | Longitude
(approx.): | 09°
48' 54" West | Average
Visibility: | 10m
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Image
available? | Yes
- see below | Diving
Experience: | Experienced |
- Lies
near a rocky outcrop known as Carraig na Coose in Dunlough Bay
- Boiler
and anchors are the largest pieces.
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- Built
by Harland and Wolff, Belfast in 1890, she grossed 3,191 tons and measured 345.6
x 40.9 x 26.7 ft.
- She
was powered by a 3 cylinder triple-expansion steam engine which generated 278h.p.
- The
African Steam Ship Co. under the Dominion Line had chartered her from the Elder
Dempster Line and she was register under the Port of Liverpool.
- Her
cargo was timber, flour, bacon, butter, cattle, lead ingots and general.
- She
drove ashore in thick fog while bound Montreal for Avonmouth.
- Commander
was Captain Williams.
- Nine
crew drowned
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Sister
ship - "S.S. Memnon" ©
by kind permission of James Hanlon
"Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during
the Age of Steam 1824
- 1962" |
by | Charles
Hocking | London Stamp Exchange 1989 - ISBN: 0948130474 |
"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 |
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Last
update - 05-Dec-2005 |
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