W. M. Barkley (SS)

Steamship in Ireland, dating from 1917

UKHO wreck no. 009100362. Chart symbol 45wk. 569-ton, 19-year-old British steamship owned by Arthur Guinness & Sons. Torpedoed, sunk by German submarine UC-75 en route from Dublin to Liverpool, cargo of porter. Four lives lost. Barrels of porter washed ashore along the east coast of Ireland and west coast of Britain. The wreck oappears to be largely intact, measuring 67m long and 9m in maximum width is orientated NE–SW at a general sea depth of 56m. A sediment scour has developed at the NE end

Type:
Steamship

Period:
1917

Coordinates:
53.37°N, 5.66°W

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