Sunken Guinness ship detected

A sonar trace of W M Barkley, the Scottish-built 19th century Guinness steamer sunk by a German torpedo in October 1917 and now lying seven miles east of the Kish Bank off Dublin.

High resolution images of W M Barkley, the first Guiness merchant vessel, which was sunk by a German torpedo seven miles off the coast of Dublin in 1917, have been revealed.

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