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Type: Steam ship
Owner: Bibby Line
Built: 1867 (No. 49)
Yard: Belfast by Harland Wolff
Hull: Steel with single screw compound expansion engine & 4
auxillary masts
Dimensions: 390 ft x 37.2 ft
Tonnage: 2931
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Steel with single screw compound expansion engine & 4
auxillary masts. On route from Liverpool to New York went on the rocks at night during dense fog. All 68 crew were saved. One of her sister vessels (The Bohemian) was wrecked at Barley Cove previously.
Licence to dive required as 100 year rule applies.
The crack cave just west of the anchor in about 10 to 12 mtrs is well worthwhile a visit provided you have calm surface conditions (no swell) with beautiful elephants' ear sponges and dahlia anemones plus huge spider crabs.
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51° 26' N 009° 29' W
Under old lighthouse on Cape Clear (screed) in a dogleg N-S-W direction. |
Top: 8 mtr top of her anchor, boilers in 20 and 27 mtrs
Seabed: shelving from 8 to 30+ mtr
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Port side, well broken up.
Seabed: Rock and Gullies
Non-slack dependant dive site (but avoid going too far south/into depth beyond 27 mtrs as there tide may affect you). |
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