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Vessel
Type: | Fleetwood
Fishing Trawler | Location: | Co.
Donegal | Date
of Loss: | 1st
January 1946 | Place: | Glengad
Head | Cause
of Loss: | Struck
rocks | Boat
Dive from: | Bunnagee
Pier, Culdaff Bay | Charted
Depth: | 28m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 3 | Height
of Wreck: | Scattered | Admiralty
Chart No: | 2811 |
Hull
Material: | Iron | Latitude
(GPS): | 55°
18' 27.12" North | Type
of Seabed: | | Longitude
(GPS): | 07°
04' 30.84" West | Average
Visibility: | 30
- 40m | Convert
Lat. & Long. to - | Decimal
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available? | Yes
- see below
| Diving
Experience: | Experienced |
- Due
to strong currents dive only at slack water.
- Bow
section only intact, the rest broken up.
- Visibility
usually excellent.
- Inhabited
by congers.
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- Built
in 1917 in Middlesborough she grossed 276 tons and measured 125.5 x 23.4 x 12.8
ft. Her official number was 144425.
- She
served with the Royal Navy in WW1 as an escort vessel and in WW2 as a minesweeper.
- After
the war she was re-converted back to a fishing trawler and bought by J. Marr &
Son Ltd.
- She
struck rocks near Glengad Head and sank in Culdaff Bay while under tow.
- Was
named after a crewman who served onboard the Victory with Lord Nelson at Trafalgar.
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©
by kind permission of fleetwood-trawlers
web site Click
HERE
for INFOMAR* Side-Scan image |
"Shipwrecks
of the Irish Coast 932 - 1997" |
by | Dr.
Edward
J. Bourke | Edward
J. Bourke 1998 - ISBN: 0952302713 |
"Shipwrecks
of the Irish Coast 1582 - 2000" |
by | Dr.
Edward
J. Bourke | Edward J. Bourke
2000 - ISBN: 0952302721 |
"Underwater
Ireland Guide to Irish Dive Sites" |
by | Irish
Underwater Council |
CFT
1999 - ISBN: 0948283025 | *source
- Geological Survey of Ireland | - | Internet
(2020) | Article
by Jenny Lawler, UCDSAC | - | SubSea
Magazine Winter 2011 |
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Last
update - 13-Nov-2020

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