Just after completing a marathon InfoBarrel entry on the Kowloon Bridge, a ship that sank locally, in West Cork, an event that I just about remember from my childhood.
I seem to recall we traveled down some narrow little roads and using borrowed binoculars looked out on the ship as she foundered on the rocks before she went under the waves.
It was an environmental disaster with the release of some 2,000 tonnes of bunker fuel but there was miraculously no loss of life.
There are some amazing pictures available on the internet of the ship stuck on the rocks, such as
I seem to recall we traveled down some narrow little roads and using borrowed binoculars looked out on the ship as she foundered on the rocks before she went under the waves.
It was an environmental disaster with the release of some 2,000 tonnes of bunker fuel but there was miraculously no loss of life.
There are some amazing pictures available on the internet of the ship stuck on the rocks, such as
- http://westcorktimes.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Kowloon2.jpg
- http://www.aquaventures.ie/Site/images/stags_right.jpg
- http://www.taucher.net/redaktion/23/kbawashIE1.JPG
Of the wreck under the water, such as;
And under construction or sailing:
but the problem with writing for a site where there is the potential for monetary reward like InfoBarrel is that it is deemed to be commercial use and I could not find one single image of the ship available for commercial use to put into the article. A great pity as some of the pictures listed above on their own particular websites are brilliant.
I did find this nice picture of the Stags, site of the wreck location, courtesy of Patrick Lee [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
This is the article anyway, happy reading! http://www.infobarrel.com/Loss_of_the_Kowloon_Bridge
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