Maritime record 3018 - UNKNOWN: OUTER HEBRIDES, ATLANTIC

Summary

57 38 55.8N, 008 18 17.4W, unknown wreck

Location

Grid reference NF 24040 79570 (point)
Map sheet NF27NW
Parish MARITIME, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

NF27NW 8000 2404 7957
N 57 38.93 W 8 18.29

Quality of fix = HF
Evidence = Vertical Scan
Horizontal Datum = OGB
General water depth = 143
Orientation of keel/wreck = EW

Surveying Details
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11 November 1977. A wreck was located on 6 May 1977 at 57 38 55.8N, 008 18 17.4W.The wreck is about 250 feet (76 metres) long, lying with its keel on an orientation of 90/270 degrees. The vessel is upside down with only the bilge just exposed above the mud and sand seabed. No echosounder depth difference picked up "on top". The side scan give a height of less than 1 metre in a general depth of 143 metres.
Report by HMS HECLA, dated 30 September 1977.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

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  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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