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Type: Steamship
Owner: Yeoward Brothers
Built: D.J. Dunlop & Co. in 1899
Hull: Steel with single screw triple expansion engine
Dimensions: 298.7 x 38.3 ft
Tonnage: 2244
Originally called the Don Hugo. |
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British steamship enroute from Las Palmas to Liverpool when
she was wrecked just south of the Kedges when she becamse fog bound.
Sixteen of her crew were rescued by a team led by CoI deacon JRH
Beecher, who was awarded an R.N.L.I. medal in recognition. Six crewmen left
by one boat and fifteen in another, leaving fourteen aboard. With great difficulty
the survivors were rescued by a ladder from nearby cliffs. Four men and
one body were landed at Union Hall.
 
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51° 27' N 009° 20' W
2m from Baltimore Harbour, lying southwest of the Kedges in a North-South direction. |
Top: 10 mtr near her anchor
Seabed: 25-28 mtr south beyond boilers
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Lying upright with her stern wedged into the gulley, where you'll find the anchor and chain. She's well broken up but a good dive with plenty of life including resident lobster/congers and nice gullies to the East. Two very prominent boilers as well as propellor shaft and huge crank shaft, triple expansion engine block and hull skeleton.
Seabed: Rock
Non-slack dependant dive site. |
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