Steam Coaster

• The ship lies 300 metres due East of the harbour and is on its side, badly broken up.
• It is suspected that some of the wreck lies elsewhere.
• Easy launching from Ballycastle slip, but may be subject to breakers in heavy swell conditions.
• Transit marks must be lined up accurately, & drag anchor in approx. position.
• Dive first hour of ebb tide.
• There is a fee to use the slip at Ballycastle Harbour.

• The six year old coaster belonged to Henry Lane & Co. of Londonderry.
• Built by Harland & Wolff in 1893 she measured 145 x 24 x 8ft., and grossed 386 tons.
• Bound Ellesmere Port for Derry, with a cargo of Orrell coal for her owners Messrs. Lane.
• The cargo shifted while off Fair Head and she pulled into Murlough Bay after suffering heavy weather damage.
• During the gale she snapped her cables and an attempt was made to get her to Ballycastle.
• Just 600 metres east of Ballycastle harbour a swell set her on her beam end and she sank with the loss of two engineers.
• The following year the barque "Fecamp" sank over the wreck. When the barque was raised the "Templemore" came with it and both were towed into the shallow water that she now lies in.
• Portholes recovered, bear the makers name - "J. Roby, Rainhill Wharf, Liverpool".
• The ship’s bell has never been found.