Oldfield Grange

Shipwreck in Ireland, dating from 1917

4,653-ton defensively-armed vessel. Buitl by Irvine's Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. Ltd. in 1913. Owned by the Houlder Brothers & Co. Ltd, London. Torpedoed and sunk without warning by German submarine U-62 while en route from New York to Cardiff with a cargo of 500 tons of copper bars and 628 tons of lead. Wreck surveyed by the Geological Survey of Ireland in 2003 as part of the Irish National Seabed Survey. Wreck measures 15m long, 11m in maximum width and lies in 109m of water. GSI Wreck No_34

Period:
1917

Coordinates:
55.77°N, 7.93°W

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