Wreck: Archangel (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Archangel, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 57 14.988 N,2 0.232 W (57.249800, -2.003867)
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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.
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Shipwreck details
Name: ARCHANGEL
Length 100.9 meter, width: 13.4 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 2448 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,personnel
Cause: ex-st petersburg. built in 1910 by j brown & co ltd, clydebank. owned at time of loss by the great eastern railway co. five boilers, triple s turbines of 10692hp. passage kirkwall for aberdeen. attacked by german aircraft and severely damaged. 40 crew and 12 passengers lost. subsequently beached and broke into four sections. (sibi).
Year of registration: 1941
Water depth above wreck: 12 meter
Known since: 1941, last detected: 1973
Details measurements/cartography: H03451/41 21.5.41 EXTENSIVE DAMAGE AMIDSHIPS DUE TO INTERNAL EXPLOSION CAUSED BY ENEMY BOMBS. (SALVAGE OFFICER ABERDEEN). H03451/41 17.5.41 DAMAGED BY BOMBING THEN TOWED AND BEACHED IN POSITION 175 DEG 1 MILE FROM CG LOOKOUT BELHEVIE ON 17.5.41. PROGRESSIVELY DISMANTLED BY SALVAGE COMPANY AND NOW SUBMERGED AT HW. LIES 1.5MILES FROM HW MARK IN 3-4 FMS AND CONSITITES A DANGER TO FISHING CRAFT. (CG ABERDEEN 3.10.41). H03451/41 14.11.41 WRECKAGE WAS BEACHED 17.5.41 IN 571500N, 020040W. NOW CONSTITUES A DANGER TO NAVIGATION. VERY LITTLE OF WK WAS VISIBLE AT HW SPRINGS. (NAVAL CONTROL SERVICE OFFICER, ABERDEEN, LTD DTD 31.10.41). INS AS DW IN 571500N, 020045W.
- NM 2680/41. 8.3.73 INS ON NC 210 IN 571500N, 020008W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 57 14.988 N,2 0.232 W
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