Help...looking for the name of an Irish ship which sank on February 14. No year supplied...just desperately looking foir this ship.
2007-02-14 10:19:38 · 4 answers · asked by Rebecca C 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
This is all I could find.......I hope it helps...
1853 - The Queen Victoria sinks in a storm off Howth, with the loss of 55 lives
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On This Day: 14 February
Wrecked Today 1926: ss VERMONT
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built by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow,
Yard No 424
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Last Name: LIBERTA
Propulsion: steam, triple expansion, 311 nhp
Built: 1900
Ship Type: Cargo Vessel
Tonnage: 4073 tons
Length: 376.2 feet
Breadth: 48 feet
Draught: 26.3 feet
Owner History:
Gov Harnson
Parodi & Corrado (date of transfer unknown)
Status: Wrecked - 14/02/1926
Remarks: Whilst under the command of Capt. Achille Moscatillii she was wrecked on Bolt Head, Devon. 4 days later she broke in half and went under the sea.
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Sunk as Target Today 1914: ss ABEOKUTA
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built by Robert Duncan & Co Port Glasgow,
Yard No 294
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Propulsion: steam, triple expansion, 199 nhp
Built: 1901
Ship Type: Passenger Cargo Vessel
Tonnage: 1817 grt
Length: 280.2 feet
Breadth: 40.1 feet
Draught: 18.2 feet
Owner History:
Elder Dempster & Co Liverpool
Status: Sunk as Target - 14/02/1914
Remarks: Foundered in the Bay of Biscay, about 70 miles South
West of Ushant, in a full hurricane, whilst on a passage from Liverpool to West Africa
(with thanks to Angus Cameron for confirmation of fate) Previous update by Stuart Cameron
Previous update by Bruce Biddulph Cowden & Duffy have her foundered 14 Feb 1915. (Ian Buxton, 2005)
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Sunk Today 1917: MARGARITA
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built by Ailsa Shipbuilding Company,
Yard No 110
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Last Name: MARGARITA
Port of Registry: Liverpool
Propulsion: Steam
Built: 1902
Ship Type: Coastal Cargo Vessel
Tonnage: 375 grt
Owner History:
Zillah Shipping & Carrying Company London
Status: Sunk - 14/02/1917
Remarks: War loss.Sunk in Irish Sea by UC 65
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Sunk Today 1942: ss ST JUST
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built by Napier & Miller Old Kilpatrick,
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Built: 1918
Ship Type: Rescue tug
Status: Sunk - 14/02/1942
Remarks: 1938 transferred to Singapore. 14/02/1942 bombed by Japanese aircraft and sunk in the Durian Straits Singapore.
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Sunk Today 1942: ss CLAN CHATTAN
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built by Greenock Dockyard Co Greenock,
Yard No 428
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Last Name: CLAN CHATTAN
Port of Registry: Glasgow
Propulsion: Triple exp eith Bauer Wach exhaust turbine
Launched: Monday, 12 April 1937
Built: 1937
Ship Type: Cargo Vessel
Tonnage: 7262 grt
Owner History:
Clan Line Steamers Ltd Glasgow
Status: Sunk - 14/02/1942
Remarks: War loss
set on fire by bombing in Med and sunk by convoy escort .
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Sunk Today 1944: HMS SALVIKING
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built by William Simons & Co Renfrew,
Yard No 755
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Launched: Tuesday, 22 December 1942
Built: 1942
Ship Type: Salvage Vessel
Tonnage: 1440 disp
Length: 217 feet
Owner History:
Royal Navy
Status: Sunk - 14/02/1944
Remarks: Sank by U
168 in Indian Ocean
appears to be the only one of its class to have been a war loss.
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Sunk Today 1972: ss MANCHESTER MERCHANT
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built by Blythswood Shipbuilding Company Scotstoun,
Engines by D Rowan & Co Ltd, Glasgow
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Last Name: CLIO (1967)
Port of Registry: Monrovia
Propulsion: 3S Turb dr geared to sc shaft 5500shp 14 knots. 3 x Single Ended Boilers supplying superheated steam at max pressure 225lbs. Generating plant 2 x 35kW @ 110VDC. Max Bunker Capacity 1052tons Oil Fuel.
Built: 1951
Ship Type: Cargo Vessel
Tonnage: 7651
Length: 464 feet 10
Breadth: 59 feet 2
Draught: 28 feet 1
Owner History:
1951-67 Manchester Liners Ltd (Furness Withy & Co), GB
1967-72 Clio Shipping Co Ltd, Liberia
Status: Sunk - 14/02/1972
Remarks: Sold to Liberian interests in 1967
Previous update by Bruce Biddulph
On fire off Angola whilst on passage Chittagong/Continent.Abandoned by crew and sank.
2007-02-14 12:09:20 · answer #1 · answered by Kate 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
MARGARITA
A coastal Cargo Vessel built in 1902 and commissioned at Liverpool and owned by Zillah Shipping & Carrying Company London,
Sunk on February 14th, 1917 in the Irish Sea 14/02/1917
2007-02-14 20:37:09 · answer #2 · answered by me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only reference to an Irish ship I can find is to this Belfast (Northern Ireland) ship which was built in 1886 and sunk on February 14th 1917. It was owned by Ulster Steamship Company / Head Line / Lord Line (After 1917) / Head-Donaldson Line:
February 14th INISHOWEN HEAD. (BELFAST).(BT 1886). Barque. 4 masted. 3050 tons. Steel. 1.25 miles off Skokholm Island. Sunk by enemy U.Boat.
Inishowen Head, 3,050grt, defensively-armed, 14 February 1917, 1¼ miles S from Skokham Island, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 1 life lost
Inishowen Head Cargo Ship, 3050 tonnes sunk off Skokholm.
2007-02-14 12:24:49 · answer #3 · answered by alpha 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1853 - The Queen Victoria sinks in a storm off Howth, with the loss of 55 lives
2007-02-14 10:58:26 · answer #4 · answered by tshanail 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋