This is the information page about the shipwreck Ailsa craig (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 33.684 N,2 47.507 W (50.561400, -2.791783)

The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.

Name: AILSA CRAIG (PROBABLY)

Length 56.2 meter, width: 8.4 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 601 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1906 by ailsa sb co ltd, troon. owned at time of loss by h craig & co. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 80 nhp, single shaft. passage cardiff for granville. torpedoed & sunk by ub-80. (llww1 & sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 33 meter, Height above seabed: 80 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2015

Details measurements/cartography: 16.4.18 SUNK IN 503000N, 024800W. (BOT). ALSO 13M W BY N FROM PORTLAND BILL. (DTI). H4583/24 7.7.24 CHARTED AS NDW PA IN 503000N, 024800W. NC 3315. H3971/52 4.7.52 WIRE DRIFT SWEPT ON 11.6.52, CLEAR AT 13FMS FOUL AT 14FMS. LEAST DEPTH BY E/S 78FT GEN DEPTH 17FMS. LENGTH 200FT, LYING NE/SW. THE SHALLOWEST PART IS IN THE CENTRE POSN 503337N, 024728W USING HSA. (HMS SCOTT/SCES, 11.6.52, SURVEY [E9419]). AMEND TO WK 13FMS IN 503337N, 024728W. BR STD. H3950/70 21.5.71 NOW CHARTED AS SW 23MTRS. NC 3315. 26.3.75 WRECK SOLD TO MR NICKLEN OF WEYMOUTH IN 1971. (MR ROWDEN, DTI, TELECON DTD 26.3.75). NCA. 9.8.82 DIVED ON SEVERAL TIMES RECENTLY. THOUGHT BY LOCAL BOATMAN TO BE THE SS BAMSE [18558]. BOWS, HEADING SW, ALMOST INTACT & UPRIGHT. STERN HAS 13PDR GUN & AMMUNITION, DATED 1916, FOUND IN BOXES NEARBY. HIGHEST POINT APPEARS TO BE BOILERS AMIDSHIPS, WITH DEPTH OF 28MTRS BY DIVERS GAUGE. TIDAL REDUCTION - 1MTR. (M SKELSEY, CHART BRANCH). NCA YET. H5982/82 3.2.83 WK SHOWN IN 503337N, 024729W [OGB] USING DECCA. (KINGFISHER CHART K(SW)1, 1982). NCA. H2923/83 3.1.85 EXAM'D 25.7.84 IN 503339N, 024727W [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 26.5, FOUL AT 26.8MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 27.1 IN GEN DEPTH 33MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 6MTRS, LENGTH APPROX 55MTRS, BEAM 9MTRS. LYING 070/250DEGS. (GARDLINE SURVEYS, HI 202). AMEND TO SW 26.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. [WGD] POSN: 5033.684N, 0247.527W. SEP 2015/000019320 8.7.15 EXAM'D 14.3.15 LEAST M/B DEPTH 28.18MTRS IN 5033.684N, 0247.507W [WGD], GEN DEPTHS 33MTRS. LENGTH 59.3MTRS, WIDTH 14.8MTRS, HEIGHT 4.8MTRS. ORIENTATION 080/260 DEGS. UPRIGHT, MOSTLY BURIED, LISTING TO PORT. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (MMT, HI1453). AMEND TO NDW 28MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, MOSTLY BURIED, LISTING TO PORT

Position: 50 33.684 N,2 47.507 W

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