This is the information page about the shipwreck Barrhill, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 49.783 N,1 45.646 E (52.7504, 2.0371)

 

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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. Aberhill
2. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Alice taylor
5. Alster
6. Alston
7. Artemisia
8. Asteria
9. Avonwood
10. Barrhill
11. Begona no 5
12. Bertha
13. Boulderpool (after part)
14. Boulderpool (fwd part)
15. British triumph
16. Camilla weston
17. Cantabria (probably)
18. Cardanel
19. Castle galleon
20. Chevington
21. City of kobe
22. Clansman (possibly)
23. Continental (possibly)
24. Corchester
25. Cordene
26. Corduff
27. Cormead
28. Courier (probably)
29. Crichtoun
30. Cross sand ltv
31. Dashwood
32. David b summers
33. Efos
34. El dorado
35. Ems
36. English trader
37. Ethel
38. Ethel radcliffe
39. Excellenz mehnert
40. Friesland
41. Fulgens
42. Galatea (possibly)
43. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
44. Gardenia
45. Geneva
46. George fisher
47. Georgia (for'd part)
48. Glen derry (probably)
49. Glynn
50. Hauxley (possibly)
51. Hector gannet
52. Helena
53. Hms agate
54. Hms cloughton wyke
55. Hms dhoon (probably)
56. Hms dungeness
57. Hms force
58. Hms francolin
59. Hms glen prosen
60. Hms irvana (part of)
61. Hms kaphreda
62. Hms m a west (probably)
63. Hms pelton (probably)
64. Hms tonbridge
65. Hms tranio
66. Hms true accord (probably)
67. Hms washington (probably)
68. Hms william stephen
69. Hmsm c 11
70. Hmsm d5
71. Homefire
72. I t l anna b
73. Ilse
74. Ionian (probably)
75. King egbert
76. Knitsley (part of)(probably)
77. Knitsley (possibly)
78. La perouse (possibly)
79. Langeli (possibly)
80. Leelite
81. Londoner (probably)
82. Marsworth
83. Montferland
84. Murdoch (probably)
85. Navarra (possibly)
86. Nereus
87. Nordborg (possibly)
88. Norman queen
89. Oil trader
90. Ole bull
91. Osprey
92. Otter
93. Oxshott (possibly)
94. Pacific (possibly)
95. Pegrix
96. Pluton
97. Polaris
98. Prima
99. Regain
100. Robrix
101. Rogate
102. Roine
103. Rose marie
104. Roxanna
105. Roy
106. Rye
107. Seagull
108. Seaham
109. Sheaf water
110. St mark
111. Stanmount
112. Thomas m (possibly)
113. Tregantle (possibly)
114. Trevethoe
115. Upminster
116. Vanguard
117. Varoy
118. Viola (possibly)
119. Waldinge
120. Walkure
121. War valley
122. Whintown (possibly)
123. White swan
124. White swan (possibly)
125. Willowpool
126. Xanthe
127. Yewvalley (possibly)

 

Name: BARRHILL

Length 123.4 meter, width: 16.2 meter, draught: 8.2, tonnage 4972 ton
Load: grain

Cause: Ex-queen margaret. built in 1912 by r duncan & co ltd, port glasgow. owned at time of loss by the barr shipping co. three boilers, triple expansion engine of 415hp, single shaft. passage new york for london. cargo bulk grain. bombed & sunk by german aircraft.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 40 meter, Height above seabed: 110 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: 28.6.41 POSN 524945N, 014630E. (CAPT (D), 16TH DESTROYER FLOTILLA, 28.6.41). H02315/41 16.9.41 MK V SWEEP CLEAR AT 42FT [MLWS]. POSN 524945N, 014543E. (FOIC YARMOUTH, 2.9.41). INS AS NDW.

- NM 2157/41. H02994/41 13.3.51 AMEND TO WK 17FMS. (AUTHORITY NOT KNOWN). 30.8.74 AMEND TO WK 31MTRS [LAT]. NC 106. H2334/75 22.9.76 LOCATED IN 524943.8N, 014542.0E [OGB]. LEAST DEPTH 32MTRS (?BY DCS3) IN GEN DEPTH 40MTRS. (HMS FAWN, HI 42/75). NCA. H2053/82 20.9.83 EXAM'D 23.5.83 IN 524945N, 014547E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 29.8 IN GEN DEPTH 40MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 41MTRS. DCS3 HT 9.7MTRS, LENGTH 80 TO 100MTRS. LYING 110/290 DEGS. (HMS ECHO, HI 125). BR STD. H4402/84 15.7.87 LOCATED DURING PRE ROUTE SURVEY BETWEEN 4.2.85 & 1.3.85. LENGTH 70-100MTRS. SAME ORIENTATION, BUT IN 39 MTRS GENERAL DEPTHS. DEPTH QUALITY UNKNOWN. (MV DAWN FLIGHT). NCA. SEP 2015/000041896 15.5.15 EXAM'D 17.10.14 IN 5249.783N, 0145.646E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 31.56MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 1MTR. LENGTH 70MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS, HT 8.5MTRS. LIES 110/290 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY HI1427).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 49.783 N,1 45.646 E

 

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