Ardmore (SS)

Steamship in Ireland, dating from 1940

Steel Steamship of Cork en route from Cork to Fishguard with a cargo of 500 cattle and pigs when it disappeared. Hit a mine and sank, all 24 on board were lost. Owned by the B. & I. Steamship Co./City of Cork Steam Packet Co. Powered by 3-cylinder triple expansion double boiler screw engine. Wreck was discovered south of the Saltees, Co. Wexford in 1995 and the wreck surveyed by the Celtic Voyager in 2009 as part of the INFOMAR seabed mapping programme. The wreck measures 80m long, 9m in maximum

Type:

Steamship

Period:

1940

Coordinates:

56.97°N, 18.17°W

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