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The Wrecks of Liverpool Bay

Ship Name: ARMAGHShip Type: LINERShip Flag: British
Ship Tonnage: 12269Ship Port: LondonShip Number: 13500
Ship Call: JRHQShip Length: 530.5Ship Width: 63.0
Ship Draught: 39.0Ship Year: 1917Ship Builder: Swan Hunter
Ship Init Owner: Union S.S. of New Zealand LtdShip Engine: 4 steam turbinesEngine Builder: Wallsend Slipway & Co ltd. Newcastle
Ship Boiler: ------ Boiler Builder: Updated: 1
Wreck Name: ARMAGHLocation: Crosby Channel
Northerly: N 53 31 30.00Westerly: W 003 07 00.00
Position Acc: 0Wreck Date: 16/12/1925
Wreck Cargo: Own CargoWreck Master: Name of last master unknown.
Wreck File: Wreck Card I D: MDHB/MS/4/3/1/26
Wreck Card Image: MDHBWK026Dec Lat: 53.525
Dec Long: -3.116666666667wreckcol:
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Ref Title: Circumstances of loss MDHB/MS/4/3/1/26Ref Note: WHILST ON VOYAGE FROM LIVERPOOL TO ADELAIDE WITH A HEAVY CARGO VESSEL GROUNDED ON SUBMERGED WALL WHICH RUNS ALONGSIDE THE MERSEY CHANNEL TO REGULATE TIDE FLOW THE VESSEL DID NOT SINK BUT THE HEAVY CARGO CAUSED HER TO BREAK & BECOME A TOTAL LOSS (DOD)
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Ref Title: Survey Notes MDHB/MS/4/3/1/26Ref Note: H8616/23 19.12.23 POSN 533130N 030700W CLOSE N OF B CAN BUOY NO B6 CROSBY CHANNEL (MERSEY DKS & HR BD 17.12.23) 19.4.73 SALVAGE ASSOCIATION ACTED AS BOARDS AGENTS FOR CARGO SALVAGE ASSOCIATION TO SALVE CARGO ON BEHALF OF UNDERWRITERS WRECK DESTROYED DEPTH UNKNOWN POSN 533130N 030703W (LIVERPOOL WK RECORDS) 25.3.75 NOT SHOWN K3500/KF NO 10
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Ref Title: LL 16th Dec 1923Ref Note: Steamer Armagh which left Liverpool yesterday PM for Brisbane went on Taylors Bank Revetment near Crosby Light vessel at 5.00 pm. Last night at 10.00pm she broke her back and is now a total wreck. Crew landed at Liverpool this morning.
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