Wrecks and historic events in County Down
The Discover Alone map has 218 wrecks and historic events in County Down, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Warrenpoint ambushambushWarrenpoint remains the bloodiest trap ever set against British soldiers, where eighteen men died near Narrow Water…
Battle of Saintfield (1798)BattlefieldSaintfield in County Down, Ireland, became a battlefield in 1798. The name and date mark a violent clash on that…
Battle of BallynahinchbattleFour thousand United Irishmen gathered at Ballynahinch in June 1798, electing Henry Munro as their leader after…
Loughinisland massacremassacreSix people died in a crowded bar while watching a football match, their joy cut short by rifles fired through the door.…
Battle of St Matthew'sMajor battlefieldBattle of St Matthew's is a major battlefield in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps june 1970: St Matthew's became a…
1971 Newry killingsmassacre- Wreck in Unknown TownlandWreckUnknown Townland, County Down: a post-medieval wreck lies buried beneath ordinary ground, waiting for rain or…
- Wild WaveShipwreckWild Wave is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the motor fishing vessel still circles its invisible anchor…
- Voer TrekkerShipwreckVoer Trekker is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the fishing vessel slipped beneath in 1983 and still drops…
- ViaShipwreckVia is a non-dangerous wreck in County Down, recorded at zero depth and lost in 1931. It may have been a small craft, a…
- UpasShipwreckUpas is a steamship lost in 1915 near County Down, Ireland. It still stands upright at 17m depth, though broken up…
- UlricaShipwreckUlrica is a four-mast square rigger lost off County Down in 1897, her scattered wreckage still lying ten metres beneath…
- TroutpoolShipwreckTroutpool is a steamship lost in 1940 beside County Down, Ireland. The wreck still lies scattered between fifteen and…
- TornamonaShipwreckTornamona is a former minesweeper lost off County Down in 1985, now broken up at ten metres depth. It stopped being a…
- Tide (prob.)ShipwreckTide (prob.) is a motor vessel lost off County Down in 1973, its name still uncertain but its fate recorded. The sea…
- Theresa JaneShipwreckTheresa Jane broke apart in County Down waters, leaving crockery and wood scattered across a hidden gully. The kitchen…
- ST Mungo (poss.)ShipwreckST Mungo (poss.) is a steamship lost in 1917, still intact and possibly upright at 68m in County Down. Its 72m frame…
- St. MaryShipwreckSt. Mary was a fishing smack lost in 1918, now resting in seventy metres of water off County Down. The sea took her…
- Springbok 2ShipwreckSpringbok 2 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the yacht slipped beneath green water in 1967 and joined…
- Solway Queen (poss.)ShipwreckSolway Queen (poss.) is a 1918 steamship wreck lying 124m deep off County Down, still largely intact beneath a 50m…
- Silver DeeShipwreckSilver Dee is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps a fishing vessel drowned there in 2015 after a sudden storm…
- Silver CrestShipwreckSilver Crest is a motor fishing vessel lost in 1990, lying on her starboard side fifteen metres down in deep County…
- Sea Empress (debris)ShipwreckA broken chest of a ship, seventy feet of rust and memory, lies submerged off County Down. The Sea Empress did not sink…
- Saint BarchanShipwreckSaint Barchan is a steamship broken into large sections on the County Down seafloor. The wreck dates to 1918, when the…
- RFA IndustryShipwreckRFA Industry is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the steel hull still lies broken at eighty-two metres…
- RFA Fort Victoria bombingbomb attackFort Victoria sat motionless inside the Harland & Wolff shipyard when two explosive charges struck her on 6 September…
- RetrieverShipwreckRetriever is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the steamship broke apart during a violent winter storm in…
- Recorded wreck SWR227ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR227 is an unknown ship lying intact and upright at 118m depth in County Down waters, its small…
- Recorded wreck SWR221ShipwreckSWR221 is an unknown small wreck lying 121m deep off County Down, still intact after a century or more beneath the…
- Recorded wreck SWR228ShipwreckEighty-six metres beneath County Down, an unknown ship waits upright and intact. It measures fifty-eight metres long…
- Recorded wreck SWR220ShipwreckSeventy-nine metres below County Down, a fifteen-metre shadow lies crushed in the dark. The official record calls it an…
- Recorded wreck SWR232ShipwreckSWR232 marks an unknown small drifter lost off County Down, buried under one metre of water. The shallowness suggests a…
- Recorded wreck SWR233ShipwreckYes. An unknown wreck lies 102m deep off County Down, intact on its side, a shadow 100m long and 12m high. It may have…
- Recorded wreck SWR231ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR231 lies intact and upright at 84m in County Down, a forgotten shape in the dark water. The official…
- Recorded wreck SWR230ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR230 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the unknown name hides a violent storm or a…
- Recorded wreck SWR261ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR261 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the unknown ship broke apart during a violent…
- Recorded wreck SWR264ShipwreckSWR264 is an unnamed wreck in County Down, Ireland, recorded at eight metres and removed between 1968 and 1971. Its…
- Recorded wreck SWR265ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR265 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the unknown name hides a violent storm or a…
- Recorded wreck SWR272ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR272 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the water there is deep enough to swallow a whole…
- Recorded wreck SWR273ShipwreckNo archive, witness or living memory gives the wreck a name. It appears only as a sonar line in County Down water…
- Recorded wreck SWR271ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR271 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the unknown name hides a violent storm or a…
- Recorded wreck SWR274ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR274 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the unknown name hides a vivid tragedy because…
- Recorded wreck SWR270ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR270 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the unknown date hides a violent storm or a…
- Recorded wreck SWR297ShipwreckSWR297 marks an unknown obstruction in County Down waters, recorded at just one metre depth. The shallowness suggests a…
- Recorded wreck SWR291ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR291 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the unknown date hides a violent storm or a…
- Recorded wreck SWR294ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR294 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the motor coaster still cuts through black water…
- Recorded wreck SWR295ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR295 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the unknown date hides a violent storm or a…
- Recorded wreck SWR246ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR246 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the unknown name hides a violent storm or a…
- Recorded wreck SWR247ShipwreckUnknown in name and date, the wreck lies 28 metres down off County Down, preserving only a rectangular shadow in the…
- Recorded wreck SWR249ShipwreckFifty years of storms cannot erase forty-nine metres of steel. The wreck lies seventy-five metres down in County Down…
- Recorded wreck SWR245ShipwreckSWR245 is an unknown stranded wreck in County Down, Ireland, recorded one metre below the surface. The shallow depth…
- Recorded wreck SWR248ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR248 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps it dropped from sight without warning, joining a…
- Recorded wreck SWR256ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR256 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the unknown name hides a violent storm or a…
- Recorded wreck SWR257ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR257 lies fifty-seven metres beneath County Down water, a steel hull belonging to an unknown vessel.…
- Recorded wreck SWR259ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR259 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the unknown ship broke apart during a violent…
- Recorded wreck SWR254ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR254 is a steamship broken across forty-three metres of water off County Down. Its stern still stands…
- Recorded wreck SWR255ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR255 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the unknown name hides a violent storm or a…
- Recorded wreck SWR258ShipwreckSWR258 is an unknown sonar contact sixty metres down off County Down, still leaking oil and tallow into the dark water.…
- Recorded wreck SWR250ShipwreckSWR250 is a recorded wreck in County Down, Ireland, where an unknown ship lies broken at 105m depth. Its anomaly…
- Recorded wreck SWR289ShipwreckRecorded wreck SWR289 is a shipwreck in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the sea took it during a storm so violent the…