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| Vessel Type: |
Schooner |
Location: | Co. Down |
| Date of Loss: | 9th February 1850 | Place: | Strangford Lough |
| Cause of Loss: | Fire | Shore Dive from: | Ballyhenry Bay |
| Charted Depth: | 4m | Irish O.S. Map: | Discovery Series No. 21 |
| Height of Wreck: | 2m | Admiralty Chart No: | 2156 |
| Hull Material: | Wood | Latitude: | |
| Type of Seabed: | Silt and mud | Longitude: | |
| Average Visibility: | 3 - 8m | Diving Experience: | Novice |
| No image listed. |
Diving Information:
- Lies in Ballyhenry Bay
- Majority was salvaged where she lay, but parts of the wreck can be seen protruding above water at low tide.
- Best dived in small groups as silt takes a long time to settle.
Historical Information:
- Vessel was destroyed by fire and foundered.
- Edward Bourke refers to this wreck in his book "Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast 932 - 1997" as that of "The Pins" referred to as the "Zarina" elsewhere in these pages.
Source Publications:
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"Shipwrecks
of the Irish Coast 932 - 1997"
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by | Edward J. Bourke |
| Edward J. Bourke 1998 - ISBN: 0952302713 | ||
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"Shipwrecks
of the Ulster Coast"
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by | Ian Wilson |
| Impact Printing 1997 - ISBN: 0948154993 |
Other Sources:
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Randal
Armstrong
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Castlereagh SAC (1985) |
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Last update - 26-Sept-2000
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