S.S. Ardmore

The SS Ardmore left Cork on 11 November 1940, bound for Fishguard with a cargo of livestock. She never arrived. The wreck was located in 1995, south of the Saltees, with massive damage near her engine room. A defensive string of mines had been laid across the entrance of the Bristol channel. They were intended to protect shipping from U-boats. They should have been firmly anchored to the seabed. However they were frequently washed up on Wexford and Waterford beaches. There had been a severe southerly gale on 10 November: the day before Ardmore sailed. It is possible that a mine set adrift by that gale could have struck the Ardmore.

S.S. Ardmore

Barry, Frank, Passage West, Co. Cork	Hare, Thomas Edwin, Dublin	O’Regan, James, Cork
Bruland, Edward, Passage West, Co. Cork	Johnson, A., Liverpool	O’Shea, Frank, Cork
Cronin, James, Cork	Kelleher, John, Cork	Power, John, Cork
Desmond, Bartholemew, Cork	Lane, John, Cork	Power, James, Cork
Fennel, James, Cork	McGlynn, John, Dublin	Raymond, Michael, Cork
Flynn, Patrick, Cork	McNally, Sydney, Liverpool	Ryan, Patrick, Passage East, Co. Waterford
Ford, Michael, Cork	O’Donovan, P., Cork	Speed, Edwin, Liverpool
Ford, Thomas, Liverpool	O’Leary, Timothy, Cork	Dalgrano, Joseph, Dublin