The wreck is 55m long and has a height of 5m above the general level of the seabed at 24.5m. Its keel is orientated 074/254 degrees and the wreck has caused a scour 0.5m deep.

Event and Historical Information:
The G A SAVAGE was a steel hulled steamship built at Troon in 1900. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 357gt, 141rt; 143.3ft length, 24.1ft breadth; 11.1ft width; screw propulsion twin cylinder compound engine, 71hp; official number 111362. The ship was registered at Troon - 1 in 1900. Its owner for all of its service life was the Zilla Shipping & Carrying Co Limited, with William A Savage of Springfield Street, Warrington, given as the managing owner. On 10 March 1917, the vessel left Workington carrying a cargo of pitch to Swansea. It was torpedoed on 11 March 1917 by UC 47 under the command of Kaptainleutnant Paul Hindus. The crew of 9 were all lost and are commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial to the Merchant Marine: Clearly, Philip, age 34, Second Engineer ; Hardley, George, master; Hodgson, Alexander, age 34 , Chief Engineer ; Krammer, Carl Martin, age 36 , Mate; Robertson, A, age 36 Fireman;
Thomas , Tom, age 22 , Fireman; Walmsley, Silas, age 15, Ordinary Seaman ; Watterson, W, age 16, Able Seaman , Mercantile Marine ; Williams, David, age 32, Able Seaman . The position given for the loss at the time was 51 25N, 04W or off Pendeen Point on the north Cornwall coast. The wreck was located by HMS BEAGLE in May 1988 and examined by HMS FAWN in July 1989.

Sources include:
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
Maritime records transferred from the English Heritage AMIE database, RCAHMW collections
Mercantile Navy List, 1900, page 757
Mercantile Navy List, 1910, page 193
Mercantile Navy List 1915, page221
UK Hydrographic Office Wrecks and Obstructions Database. ? Crown Copyright and database rights. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the UK Hydrographic Office (www.ukho.gov.uk).

WWW resources:
https://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/2419.html
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead/results?war=1&unit=G%2BA%2BSavage)

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, March 2019.