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The
SS Ardmore left Cork for Fishguard at approximately 20.00 Hours
on the night of Monday 11th of November 1940.
Research from intelligence
documentation indicates that the Ardmore was last seen in Cobh
as she proceeded from Cobh Harbour. She was logged
passing the Ballycotton look out
post at 22.20 hours. She
was then logged by the
Knockadoon Head look out post at 22.55 hours
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Nothing more was heard
from the Ardmore until wreckage was spotted coming
ashore on the 20th of November 1940 off St Davids
Head in South Wales.
Wreckage including
dead animals was also washed up on the rocks of the
Great Saltee. |
German
Military Archives indicate that there was no U- Boat activity
within this area from the 11th to the 12th of November 1940.
It was
concluded that the Ardmore and her crew of 24 were lost as a
result of a mine explosion to her mid-section off the Great
Saltee Islands, Co Wexford between 24.00 hours and 04.00 hours
on or about Tuesday morning the 12th of November 1940.
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