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#1 Post by Big Dave »

Hi all,

Wondering if anyone has the gps position for the wreck in the inner bay. There was an old coal ship went down off silverstrand, which I have on the old paper charts but dont think i could take the positions off it properly.

Anyone got any ideas.
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#2 Post by davequirke@hotmail.com »

try checking the divers sites some times they give out the spots
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#3 Post by Caz-Galway »

The one your talking about, I think, went down just about 1 mile south west of blackrock diving board. Its marked by a black metal pole marker or the reef it hit is. Its very shallow as the wreck was visable for a number of years. I think the marker/buoy is refered to as the margerita or maybe that was the ships name.

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#4 Post by gfkelly1969 »

i think this is the ship you are talking about http://www.angmeringvillage.co.uk/histo ... mering.htm I do remember some thing about the metal pole that caz is talking about,you can see the pole from black rock in salthill
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#5 Post by hugo »

Caz-Galway wrote: I think the marker/buoy is refered to as the margerita or maybe that was the ships name.Caz
I dont think its the Marguerita, that was a buoy in the middle of the bay marking a rock pinnacle that almost broke the surface on spring lows. The top was blown off it in the late 70s, the buoy may still be out there.
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#6 Post by donal domeney »

Is this the one
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Thats the very one donal, I dont guess you have the gps positions, as far as i know its not marked by the post that lies to the north of the channel markers. The post ground is exposed at low tides and is really broken up, not sure if there is much left of the wreck but think it lies to the south west.
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#8 Post by donal domeney »

Big Dave wrote:Thats the very one donal, I dont guess you have the gps positions, as far as i know its not marked by the post that lies to the north of the channel markers. The post ground is exposed at low tides and is really broken up, not sure if there is much left of the wreck but think it lies to the south west.
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#9 Post by JOHN1 »

donal domeney wrote:
Big Dave wrote:Thats the very one donal, I dont guess you have the gps positions, as far as i know its not marked by the post that lies to the north of the channel markers. The post ground is exposed at low tides and is really broken up, not sure if there is much left of the wreck but think it lies to the south west.
The GPS numbers are on the bottom right handside of the picture
Don't you mean the left Donal :shock: :lol: :lol:
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#10 Post by Big Dave »

Many thanks Donal, what software are you pulling that up on? Thanks again I'll let you know how you get on and if your ever up this way with a rod your more than welcome to a spin out to it and fish it for a few hours.
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#11 Post by rustyhookthomas »

this may help.
http://www.irishwrecksonline.net/
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#12 Post by JOHN1 »

rustyhookthomas wrote:this may help.
http://www.irishwrecksonline.net/
no it wont, the coords on this site are 100's of yards off some of the marks.
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#13 Post by donal »

a ship hit it a bout 5 years ago so its no longer visable i also ""heard"" from a guy that the remainder was blasted by the army it wasn't a great wrek for fishing anyway too shalow. id be intrested to know how you get on if you fish it. often thought about snorkeling around it to see what it looks like
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