Wreck of the Carnavonshire

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Construction

Type: Barque

Owner:

Built: Liverpool in 1876

Yard: Hughes

Hull: Steel

Dimensions:

Tonnage: 1274

Carnavonshire - 11 April 1896

British steamship with three masts enroute from San Francisco to Queenstown with wheat. Struck Thige Mor Rock.

Licence to dive required as 100 year rule applies.

Location

51° 29' N 009° 16' W

1/2m east from Yokane Point

Depth

Top: 10 mtr

Seabed: 20 mtr

Disposition

Well broken up.

Seabed: Rock

Non slack-dependant dive site.

In calm conditions and neap tides can be done as a shore dive from Murphy's Cove.