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Sligo Shipwreck Mystery Solved – 250 Years After it Sank
17th December 2020
The remains of the large, wooden vessel on Streedagh Strand in Sligo,known locally as the ‘Butter Boat”, and now identified as a 1770 shipwreck named Greyhound which claimed 20 lives. One man - a Mr Williams ‘from Erris’ - was recorded as surviving the wrecking
The National Monuments Service says it has resolved the mystery of a shipwreck off Co Sligo s Streedagh strand where three Armada ships are known to have foundered in 1588.
Research has confirmed that a wreck of a vessel off Streedagh known as the Butter Boat was a Yorkshire coastal trading ship, the Greyhound. ....

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