This is the information page about the shipwreck Gaelic, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 15.333 N,7 49.25 W (55.490066666667, -8.0172333333333)

The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.

Name: GAELIC

Length 38.4 meter, width: 7.3 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 224 ton
Load: sand

Cause: built 1898 as an iron barquentine at amlwich, served as a q ship during ww1. twin motors fitted in 1916. sold to capt o'toole of arklow in 1923. sank following a collision in the mersey in 1939, raised & masts removed. struck rocks and sank while on passage ards to garston. crew rescued. (shipwrecks of the irish coast).

Year of registration: 1953

Water depth above wreck: 25 meter

Known since: 1953, last detected: 1993

Details measurements/cartography: 18.8.53 18.8.53 SUNK IN 551520N, 074912W [OSI]. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). INS AS NDW. BR STD. H2265/73 13.6.73 H2265/73 13.6.73 NOW CHARTED AS WK USC PA 15MTRS. (TONNAGE KNOWN). NC 2811. H1270/77 8.12.77 H1270/77 8.12.77 WK LIES ON W SIDE OF FRENCHMAN'S ROCK IN 26MTRS OF WATER. WELL BROKEN UP. ENGINE, WITH SOME OF THE KEEL AND STERN, REMAIN. SHAFT AND PROPELLER LIE A LITTLE WAY FROM REMAINDER OF WRECKAGE. (A SHORKEY, DROGHEDA SAC, 20.11.77). NCA. H1285/80 22.7.80 H1285/80 22.7.80 LARGE, FAIRLY WELL BROKEN STEEL VESSEL IN 15-28MTRS. STERN SECTION STILL INTACT. (A HUNT, PORTSTEWART SAC). NCA. H1310/80/38 10.11.80 H1310/80/38 10.11.80 LIES BETWEEN THE TWO OF THE FRENCHMEN'S ROCKS. HAS BEEN REDUCED TO SEABED LEVEL EXCEPT FOR ENGINE BLOCK WHICH STANDS 12FT HIGH. HAS APPARENTLY BEEN SALVAGED. PROPELLER STILL PRESENT. (P G FRENCH, PORTSTEWART SAC, 5,11.80). NCA. HH100/351/06 22.1.93 HH100/351/06 22.1.93 REPORTED BY DIVERS TO BE WELL-DISPERSED. (N SOTHY, 12.1.93). CHART AS NDW. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP AND DISPERSED

Position: 55 15.333 N,7 49.25 W

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