cheekpoint

One ship that seemed to have had a lot of troubles. tidesandtales.ie/the-blighted-earl-of-beaconsfield/.

Mike Grimes She did not have any luck whatsoever!

Here is the official goss - wrecksite.eu/docBrowser.aspx?5831?7?1 via - wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?171992 ... On the following morning, the weather having moderated still more, some tugs belonging to the Waterford Steamship Company went out, and having taken hold of the vessel, brought her into the river, but before they could get her into the harbour the tide had turned, and they were obliged to cast anchor and hold on until the following tide, when they took her up the harbour, and laid her on the mud. There the cargo was retrimmed, and the vessel pumped out, and she has since been towed round to Greenock, where she now is, her cargo having been discharged preparatory to undergoing repairs ..." It's not super clear what date in February 1884 this was. [I went on a wild goose chase after another 'Earl of Beaconsfield' which was shipwrecked near Hull in 1887]

Named after Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli via The City College of New York

The Board of Trade Inquiry "into the abandonment of the sailing ship Earl of Beaconsfield off the coast of Ireland on 13th February" concluded (in summary) that no-one was to blame.

- the ship was new and had been inspected by Lloyds - it had been "admirably stowed" - the master made every effort to get the ship into port - the master was right to abandon the ship when he did - the owners had insured the ship and freight "very fully", but she was not over insured - the primary cause was the violence of the gale - but also: some coal had shifted in the storm, causing a list, which could (and ought to) have been prevented by the use of shifting boards (especially as the planned voyage included rounding of Cape Horn)

As Mr Rothery, Wrecks Commissioner, didn't (but could have) put it, "It was just one of those things". There were 32 crew and one stowaway. (North British Daily Mail - Saturday 29 March 1884)

You've got it backwards.

Ah! the SS EKORBMEP at Cheekpoint with a dent in her nose A short time after 23rd February 1899.

SS Pembroke: She operated as a paddle steamer from 1880 to 1895; the following year returning to service with twin screws and new boilers, all this time on the Irish Sea. In 1916 Pembroke was transferred to work from Weymouth as a cargo boat but on 24 September she was attacked by a U-boat so the following January she was fitted with a gun for defence. She was sold for scrap in 1925

If this is at Cheekpoint, then it was her second - this timedeliberate - grounding after she hit the Saltees on 18th February 1899.

SS Pembroke aground at Cheekpoint, was apparently a thing. Edit: Too slow and not funny enough again.