This is the information page about the shipwreck Ardgantoch, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 37.792 N,0 32.486 W (54.629867, -0.541433)

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: ARDGANTOCH

Length 61 meter, width: 9.2 meter, tonnage 841 ton

Cause: built in 1919 by ferguson bros ltd, port glasgow. owned at time of loss by ardgantock coasters ltd. single boiler, triple expansion engine, single shaft. machinery aft. passage purfleet for inverness. cargo navigational buoys. foundered following a collision with hms tartar. no men lost.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 53 meter, Height above seabed: 55 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2001

Details measurements/cartography: H4531/17 MASTS VISIBLE ABOVE HW IN 543800N, 003230W. - FNM 457/17. H4653/18 10.8.18 NO LONGER CONSIDERED A DANGER TO NAVIGATION. (SNO TYNE). H3752/26 11.6.26 INS NDW IN 543800N, 003230W ON 1191. 3.4.74 AMEND T USC 28MTRS. NC 134. H2534/74 5.12.79 WKS IN 543748N, 003234W & 543744N, 003242W. POSNS BY DECCA. (KINGFISHER BOOK OF TOWS, VOL 1). H6331/87 7.2.89 EXAM'D 7.7.88 IN 543747N, 003223W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 50 IN GEN DEPTH 53MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 3.4MTRS, LENGTH 52MTRS, WIDTH 13MTRS APPROX. LIES 055/235 DEG, POSSIBLY ON ITS SIDE WITH A MAST-LIKE OBJECT ON THE SEABED TO THE NE. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). BR STD. HH100/351/13 18.3.98 IDENTIFIED AS 'ARGANTOCH' FROM MAKER'S NUMBER ON STEERING PEDESTAL. (A C JACKSON & C A RACEY, LTR DTD 12.3.98). HH100/351/17 27.4.01 AFT ENGINED COASTER LYING ON PORT SIDE. THE TWO HOLDS HAVE COLLAPSED. SINGLE BOILER EASILY MADE OUT, ENGINE SEEMS TO BE FURTHER OVER, CRANK IS CLEARLY SHOWING. BOW VERY INTACT AND LIES ON PORT SIDE. WHITE CHEESE TYPE WEDGES OF A SUBSTANCE ARE SCATTERED ABOUT THE STERN. ?EXPLOSIVES AND BEST LEFT ALONE. (A C JACKSON/C A RACEY). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, ON PORT SIDE

Position: 54 37.792 N,0 32.486 W

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