This is the information page about the shipwreck Baku standard, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 48.516 N,2 12.861 W (56.633333333333, -16)

 

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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.

 

1. Athenia
2. Aurora
3. Baku standard
4. Branksea (possibly)
5. Clara gwynne
6. Clint
7. Confield
8. Cushendall (part of)(possibly)
9. Daydawn
10. Empire claire
11. Empire miniver
12. Empire volunteer
13. Fanad head
14. Geraldine mary
15. Gowrie (possibly)
16. Greenawn (possibly)
17. Hedson
18. Herrington
19. Hms beathwood (probably)
20. Hms braconburn (possibly)
21. Hms broadwater
22. Hms gelsina
23. Hms nordhav ii (part of)(possibly)
24. Hms nordhav ii (possibly)
25. Hms repro (probably)
26. Jamaica pioneer
27. Janus
28. King alfred
29. King idwal
30. Kotka
31. Lh 308 (possibly)
32. Lowdock
33. Luffness
34. Margaret rae
35. Matador
36. Nora
37. Port gisborne
38. Queensbury (possibly)
39. Rowanbank
40. Sambre
41. Shirak
42. Silverburn
43. Star of luxor
44. Sylvafield
45. Tanevik
46. Taurus (possibly)
47. Thiara
48. Trebartha
49. Uganda
50. Valhallah
51. Viking queen
52. Vogtland
53. Wandby
54. Whitford point

 

Name: BAKU STANDARD

Length 100.9 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 9.8, tonnage 3708 ton
Load: oil

Cause: built in 1893 by w g armstrong, mitchell & co. owned at time of loss by john i jacobs & co ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 293nhp, single shaft. passage the clyde for the firth of forth. torpedoed by uc 58. (sibi & ww1sl).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 44 meter, Height above seabed: 288 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20220514

Details measurements/cartography: M06522  1918 IN POSN 564800N, 021245W. M10537 26.2.18 SANK IMMEDIATELY. NO INFORMATION REGARDING POSN. (I.D.S.A). M02228 12.2.18 POSN 564800N, 021245W. (CO, HMT SRECON CASTLE). M02228 12.2.18 POSN 564800N, 021245W. (MASTER). 5 MILES BY W HALF W FROM TOD HEAD. H4087/26 24.6.26 INS DW (1918)(PA). BR STD. H1192/67 26.4.67 LOCATED IN 564830N, 021245W [OGB] USING HIFIX/3 [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 66FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 114FT IN GEN DEPTH 146FT. SCOUR 153FT. SWEPT CLEAR 11FTHMS. ACCURACY +/- 1FM. (HMS EGERIA, HI 17/66). AMEND TO WK 18FMS. BR STD. 6.11.72 AMEND TO SW 11FTHMS. NE 1407. 8.3.73 AMEND TO SW 20MTRS. NC 210. 11.11.75 AMEND TO SW 19.8MTRS [LAT]. NC 210. 15.10.03 RECORD REVIEWED. AMEND TO WK 34MTRS. (HMS EGERIA, E/S DEPTH 1967). BR STD. HH091/152/01 - SEP 2008/000075801 18.6.08 EXAM'D 27.1.08 IN 5648.519N, 0212.912W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 31.0 IN GEN DEPTH 43.6MTRS. SCOUR 7MTRS DEEP SURROUNDS WK. LENGTH 134MTRS, WIDTH 24MTRS, HT 12.6MTRS. LIES 110/290 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. BROKEN AND DEGRADED. (GARDLINE HYDRO, HI 1152). AMEND WK 31MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 14.3.19 SURVEYED 2018 ON BEHALF OF SALMO MOD UK. (IMAGE SUPPLIED BY MATT SKELHORN, SALMO MOD UK). NFA. RSDRA2022000174021 26.07.22 EXAM’D 14.5.22 IN 5648.517N, 0212.862W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 30.61MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 44MTRS. LENGTH 133.2MTRS, WIDTH 24.2MTRS, HT 10.3MTRS. ORIENTATION 288/108 DEGS. UPRIGHT AND PARTIALLY BURIED WITH COLLAPSED STERN AND BOW. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI 1732). AMEND DW 30.61MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT AND PARTIALLY BURIED, WITH COLLAPSED STERN AND BOW

Position: 56 48.516 N,2 12.861 W

 

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