This is the information page about the shipwreck Ashbury, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 32.776 N,4 24.616 W (58.805166666667, -4.3572)

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: ASHBURY

Length 108.5 meter, width: 16.2 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 3901 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1924. owned at time of loss by the alexander shipping co. four boilers, triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage workington for the tyne. in ballast. stranded and lost in heavy weather and fog near black rocks, talmaine skerries, at mouth of kyle of tongue. crew of 42 all lost. (sibi) ex- cairnhill, ex- nitedal, built by william gray & co., w hartlepool. details of loss & photo of vessel. (shipwrecks of the n of scotland)

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 15 meter

Known since: 1945, last detected: 2009

Details measurements/cartography: H1247/70 27.2.70 LOCATED IN 583248N, 042432W. LYING IN 70FT. (R D MUIR). 1.12.81 DIVERS REPORT THAT HULL AND SUPERSTRUCTURE APPEARED IN FAIRLY GOOD CONDITION IN SUMMER 1981. (SEA BREEZES, NOV 1981). 3.6.86 DESCRIBED AS VERY MUCH A 'SCRAPYARD' DIVE NOW. LITTLE TO BE RECOGNISED EXCEPT BOILER. (K MCDONALD). 25.3.97 INS AS F. (WRECKS OFFICER). BR STD. 30.7.04 AN AREA OF BROKEN UP WRECKAGE, CLOSE W OF DUBH SGEIR MHOR. DOES NOT SHOW ON E/S. (DIVER MAGAZINE, AUG 2004). NCA. 9.4.09 EUT POSN: 5832.776N, 0424.533W. NE 1954.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 32.776 N,4 24.616 W

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