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Samaria

Motor Fishing Vessel-(2000)

What is recorded here

Samaria was a Kilkeel fishing vessel that collided with the fishing vessel Golden Bell northeast of Clogher Head early on 23 June 2000. All three fishermen were rescued without injury. The wreck has since been measured on the seabed east of County Louth, showing that the saved Dumfries and Galloway area label is wrong.

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Samaria was a Kilkeel fishing vessel that collided with the fishing vessel Golden Bell northeast of Clogher Head early on 23 June 2000. All three fishermen were rescued without injury. The wreck has since been measured on the seabed east of County Louth, showing that the saved Dumfries and Galloway area label is wrong.

The vessel and voyage

Samaria was a motor fishing vessel registered at Kilkeel. The checked report does not give her catch or full route, but places her at work in the Irish Sea with three fishermen aboard.

How it was lost

At about 1 a.m. on 23 June 2000, Samaria collided with the Kilkeel fishing vessel Golden Bell northeast of Clogher Head and sank. The known sequence is a collision, not a grounding or unexplained foundering.

Deaths and survival

Clogher Head lifeboat rescued all three fishermen without injury. There were no deaths in the sinking.

What remains

Survey work identified a wreck about eight kilometres east of Dunany Point in roughly 27 metres of water. It measures about 13.5 by 4.5 metres, with seabed scouring around it. The coordinates place it off County Louth, not Dumfries and Galloway.

Why it mattered

The loss shows both the sudden danger of fishing traffic and the value of a fast lifeboat response. It also exposes a useful data error: a Scottish area label had been attached to an Irish Sea position off Ireland.

Sources for this account

Sources checked 2026-08-15.

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