Maritime record 2162 - HMS SCOTSTOUN: OUTER HEBRIDES, ATLANTIC

ME61SE 8000 6714 1249
N 57 0 W 9 53

Quality of fix = PA
Horizontal Datum = OGB

Circumstances of Loss Details
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The HMS SCOTSTOUN vessel was the ex Anchor Line vessel, SS CALEDONIA, built in 1925. She taken over by the Admiralty and fitted out as an auxilliary cruiser. She was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, U27, in the NW approaches.
Sources; Dictionary of Disasters at Sea,World War II Shipping Loses, Axis Submarine Successes.

Surveying Details
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1940. The vessel sank at 57 00 00N, 009 53 00W.The position given is 57 00 00N, 009 56 00W, in 1100 fathoms (2011 metres).
Source; commercial in confodence Western Approaches

9 May 1991. The sinking position is given as 200 miles west of Inishtrahull in the Dictionary of Disaster at Sea. The sinking position is given as 57 00 00N, 009 57 00W in Axis Submarine Successes.

This plots in over 2000 metres.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.