This is the information page about the shipwreck Apollo, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 57 44.33 N,6 25.914 W (57.576166666667, -6.41435)

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: APOLLO

Length 75.3 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1274 ton
Load: stone,salt

Cause: owned at time of loss by propellor shipping co ltd. passage runcor for copenhagen. stranded at ru na h-aiseig skye. (ll).

Year of registration: 1971

Water depth above wreck: 0 meter

Known since: 1971, last detected: 1982

Details measurements/cartography: 22.10.71 REFLOATING ATTEMPTS ABANDONED. (LL 206/2 44 86). H2894/72 27.4.72 POSN 574424N, 062542W ON SW FLADDA-CHUAIN. STERN COVERED AT HW BUT HIGH & DRY AT MLWS. SLOWLY BREAKING UP FUNNEL & PART OF SUPERSTRUCTURE GONE. PLUNDERED BY SCRAP PIRATES. (RNO LOCH EWE, HM NAVAL ESTABL. AULTBEA ROSS-SHIRE 24.4.72). CHART AS ST. LC 2551. H2894/72 3.10.73 POSN 281DEG 4.4M EILEAN TRODDAY LT. NOT CONSPIC. (SS ARIANTA, HN DTD 13.9.73). POSN 574421N, 062551W APPROX. NCA. H4856/75 15.7.77 VISIBLE AT ALL STATES OF TIDE. CORRECTLY CHARTED. (HMS HECLA, HI 7/76). H1310/80 15.10.80 DIVED ON 27.8.80. PORTION OF HANDRAIL DRIED 0.5MTR AT LW. AFTERMOST PART OF SHIP STILL COMPLETE AND LISTING ABOUT 60 DEGS TO STBD. FOR'D OF THIS THE DECKS AND STRUCTURE OVER ENGINE RM HAS COLLAPSED ONTO ENGINE AND GEARBOX. ALL HULL FOR'D OF ORIGINAL POSN OF SAMPSON POST HAS DISPERSED. MASTS HAVE NOW COLLAPSED AND UPPER DECK HAS BEEN TORN OFF AND LIES UPSIDE DOWN ON SEAWARD SIDE. (J O HALL, 3.10.80). NCA. H1933/80 14.10.81 NO INDICATION OF THIS WK FOUND DURING HELICOPTER SEARCH OF COASTLINE OR SEEN FROM SHIP WHEN AT ANCHOR HALF A MILE W OF POSN. CONSIDERED TO HAVE BROKEN UP COMPLETELY. (HMS HYDRA, HI 2/81). DELETE. BR STD. 18.2.82 BREAKING UP. MASTS LYING ON SEABED, UPPER DECK COLLAPSED OVER ENGINE. STERN STILL INTACT. IN 1980 PORT HANDRAIL OVER STEERING COMPARTMENT DRIED 1MTR AT LW5. LIES ABOUT 30MTRS OUT FROM THE SHORE. (BSAC WK REGISTER, VOL 5). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BREAKING UP, STERN STILL INTACT

Position: 57 44.33 N,6 25.914 W

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