Tresness (ireland-and-northern-ireland)
Type: historic=wreck
Coordinates: 52.425259744111386, -6.946480779477295
Area: 3.660595703125e-05 km²
OSM tags:
access: no
addr:county: Wexford
addr:place: River Barrow
alt_name: Tressness;Mountelliott Wreck
description: lying on its side, roughly parallel to the river, top side facing the river.
historic: wreck
material: wood
moved: no
name: Tresness
name:1871-1919: Lars Jørgensen
noname:short: yes
note:date_sunk: wiid currently has the month incorrectly listed as september instead of august.
seamark:type: wreck
seamark:wreck:category: dangerous
seamark:wreck:information: low clearance. masts on the northern side lying horizontally across the river, prone to moving with the current.
seamark:wreck:water_level: above_mwl
ship:date_built: 1871
ship:date_registered: 1919
ship:engine: auxiliary
ship:engine:brand: Plenty&Son,Ld.Newbury
ship:engine:fuel: oil
ship:engine:output: 11.9 kW
ship:engineer: Jørgen Ring Andersen
ship:masts: 3
ship:old_ref:DK:skibsregister: NGPW
ship:operator:1871-1916: J. L. Jørgensen (from Thurø, Svendborg, Denmark)
ship:operator:1916-1929: Peter S. Cooper (trading as William Cooper and Sons)
ship:operator:1929-1936: William E. Dixon (from Neyland, Pembrokeshire)
ship:place_built: Svendborg, Denmark
ship:place_registered: Kirkwall, United Kingdom
ship:ref:GB:lloyd: 132495
ship:type: schooner
source: Bing 2021-05-(22-25);Esri World Imagery Wayback 2017-10-04 (DigitalGlobe 2016-08-16);newspaper archives;Wreck Inventory of Ireland Database;Lloyd's Register of Shipping;The School Collection, Volume 0897, Page 228-230;The School Collection, Volume 0847, P
source:date:wiid: 2021-03-10
wreck:breadth: 6.7
wreck:cargo: ballast
wreck:cargo:planned: timber
wreck:clearance: 3
wreck:commissioned: no
wreck:date_sunk: 1929-08-21
wreck:depth_hold: 2.7
wreck:direction: 290
wreck:discoverer: Anne-Karoline Distel
wreck:discovery: 2023-07-09
wreck:est_length: 25.2
wreck:gross_tonnage: 129t
wreck:length: 29.6
wreck:net_tonnage: 66t
wreck:place_sunk: River Barrow, Rosemount (Mount Elliot)
wreck:place_sunk:description: its original location was about a mile up the river, or about 100 meters from Mount Garrett Bridge.
wreck:ref:GB:lloyd: 36746
wreck:ref:IE:wiid: W15939
wreck:type: ship
wreck:visible_at_high_tide: no
wreck:visible_at_low_tide: yes
wreck:voyage_sunk:from: Barrow
wreck:voyage_sunk:to: St. Mullins