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Any info on this ship?

  • 18-10-2012 10:35pm
    #1
    flyingsnail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,765 ✭✭✭


    https://maps.google.com/?ll=52.652574,-9.111432&spn=0.005422,0.016512&t=h&z=17

    I was looking around on google maps when I came across this ship that looked to be docked in an odd spot across the river from Foynes. When you go into street view it looks fairly beat up and may even be beached. Does anybody know what vessel it is? And what its doing there?

    Thanks Flyingsnail.


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  • #2
    imurdaddy
    Site Banned Posts: 638 ✭✭✭imurdaddy


    it was at a broken up for scrap a few years ago along with a few smaller ones that were there,

    as for what vessel it is or how it cam to be there i have no idea!.....often wandered myself :)


  • #3
    cyrusdvirus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/11235034

    that's her name anyway... time to do a bit more digging


  • #4
    cyrusdvirus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?69495


  • #5
    cyrusdvirus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/archive/index.php?t-20292.html

    according to a post on the above site
    MATRISHA ex DUISBURG ex COBURG ex BOBURG

    MATRISHA (Bhs/Nassau) Millwood Shipping Inc. I think J.Fisher & Sons, Barrow, England, where also involved with this ship.

    On a voyage Amsterdam for Waterford
    31st October 1991 she ran aground on the south coast of Ireland in position 52.07n-07.25w, near Bunnmahon, the crew were all taken off.
    22nd November 1991 she was refloated and towed into Waterford, where, after inspection, she was declared a CTL.
    30th November 1991 left in tow of tug LADY ALMA (Irl/66;218) bound for Cork.
    3rd December 1991 she arrived at Killadysert, I believe, for delivery to the breakers, I cannot find anything of her after this date.


  • #6
    flyingsnail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,765 ✭✭✭flyingsnail


    great, thanks guys.


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  • #7
    Jambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Jambo


    Some pictures of her aground here courtesy of mike65 on flickr/boards

    2679726599_cb2eeaccec.jpg2680545802_a070f7185b.jpg

    She was cut up in 2010 , and I am sure the bucket dredger which was also their got the chop too - incidentally the bucket dredger has a bit of a story to
    when her and her sister were being towed from Liverpool to the Shannon one of them capsized off Waterford and had to be scuttled by the Navy


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