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Whiddy Island Oil Terminal, taken in 2003: The view is from the north side of Bantry Bay. The three small objects in the water on the extreme right are the remnants of the concrete jetty. Military and civilian personnel were mobilised from all over Ireland to respond to the disaster. The incident was the subject of agonised debate in the Dáil ...
She was forced to leave port after losing her anchor and damaging her steering gear to avoid colliding with an oil tanker also anchored in Bantry Bay. Royal Air Force helicopters rescued the crew and the Kowloon Bridge was effectively abandoned with her engine running astern, heading away from the Irish coast.
Bantry Bay is a ria, a bay formed from a drowned river valley as a result of a relative rise in sea level.The bay is a deep (approx 40 metres in the middle) and large natural bay, with one of the longest inlets in southwest Ireland, bordered on the north by Beara Peninsula, which separates Bantry Bay from Kenmare Bay.
List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1842 Ship State Description Leon France: The ship was wrecked in Bantry Bay with the loss of all hands. [81] [33] Typhis United Kingdom: The brig was driven ashore at Calais, France. She was on a voyage from Calais to Sunderland, County Durham. She was later refloated and put back to Calais. [82]
List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1979 Ship State Description Glacier Queen United States The floating hotel's wreck – refloated after sinking at anchor in November 1978 in Seldovia Bay) in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of Alaska – was scuttled in 12,000 feet (3,700 m) of water in the Gulf of Alaska 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) west of Cape Saint Elias on the southwestern tip ...
On their way, the fleet was dispersed by tempests. The Droits de l'Homme arrived at Bantry Bay and cruised off the coast, capturing the brigs Cumberland and Calypso. She stayed there for eight days to ascertain that no French ship was in distress on the coast, and departed for Brittany. Droits de l'Homme wrecked
List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1820 Ship State Description Ann United Kingdom: The ship ran aground on the Andrews Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from Harwich, Essex to London. [1] Anne United Kingdom: The ship was wrecked on Penmon Point, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued.
The Whiddy Island station was located on the eastern side of the island in Bantry Bay. Patrols and convoys for the waters to the southwest of Ireland were furnished by this station. [2] In all, five Curtiss Model H planes were based in Whiddy Island during 1918: BUNO *A1072, A1078, A1084, A3466, A4047, A4048. [3]