Ailsa Craig

Built by Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Yard No 156
Launched: Thursday, 06/09/1906
Built: 1906
Ship Type: Coaster
Tonnage: 641 grt
Length: 184.5 feet, 56,21 (m)
Breadth: 27.6 feet, 8,38 (m)
Owner History:
H Craig & Co., Belfast
Status: Torpedoed & Sunk – 15/04/1918

This British steamship was carrying a cargo of coal, when she was torpedoed by UB-80 in 1918, when 13 miles W by N of Portland Bill on passage Cardiff for Granville with coal. She was sunk just 4 miles due west of the Pomeranian, and the vessels may have been in convoy. This was the same day the Pomeranian was sunk.

She sits more or less upright, fairly intact, with her impressive bows twisted over to the starboard side. Her stern is intact with the boiler and engine at aft clearly and plainly exposed.

Depth 35m, standing 5.5 m from a silty bottom