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Name | Nationality | Location | Date Lost | |
Osprey | British | Approx 30nm off Inismore | 1915 | |
Osprey : | |||
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Owner | Hugh Flinn, Liverpool | ||
Flag | British | Builder | Archibald McMillan & Son, Dumbarton |
Port | Liverpool | Build Date | 1905 |
Official No | 120839 | Material | |
Tonnage nrt/grt | 96 / 327 | ||
Ship type | Steam Ship | Dimensions | 140ft | 23.6ft | 9.8ft |
Ships Role | General Cargo | Rigging Style | |
Super Structure | |||
Quarter Deck 58 ft, Forecastle 20 ft, 1 Steel Deck. |
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Hull | |||
3 Bulkheads, Flat Keel. Machinery Aft. |
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Machinery | |||
Triple expansion 3cyl Engine, (13¾, 21 & 34 - 24in), 160lb, 59rhp. One single ended boiler. Single screw. Engine built by By McKie & Baxter, Copland Works, Govan. |
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Wreck Location | Off Aran Islands Approx 30nm off Inismore | ||
Date Lost | 12/08/1915 | Captain | David Elliott |
Cause | Shelled and Sunk | Crew Lost | |
Position | Passengers Lost | ||
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History | |||
THE SUNKEN OSPREY, Captain's StoryEIGHT SHELLS FIREDFrom German SubmarineCaptain David Elliott, of the sunken steamer Osprey, told an interviewer that at seven o'clock on Thursday morning when about thirty miles from Aran a shell burst across his bows. Looking round, they saw a submarine about a mile away. A second shell was fired at them, and than he ordered the crew to get the boat ready and to abandon the ship. After they left her the submarine came alongside and fired six shells in to her. Five minutes later she had gone down. For twelve hours they rowed towards the shore, without food, and it took two men to keep the boat baled out. At 7.30 p.m. they reached Aran, where they were well treated. The shipwrecked Mariners Association is sending them home. Dublin Evening Telegraph - Monday 16 August 1915 |
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