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. Ayrshire (possibly)
11. Barrhill
12. Begona no 5
13. Bertha
14. Boulderpool (after part)
15. Boulderpool (fwd part)
16. British triumph
17. Camilla weston
18. Cantabria (probably)
19. Cardanel
20. Castle galleon
21. Chevington
22. City of kobe
23. Clansman (possibly)
24. Continental (possibly)
25. Corchester
26. Cordene
27. Corduff
28. Cormead
29. Courier (probably)
30. Crichtoun
31. Cross sand ltv
32. Daisy (possibly)
33. Dashwood
34. David b summers
35. Efos
36. El dorado
37. Ems
38. English trader
39. Ethel
40. Ethel radcliffe
41. Excellenz mehnert
42. Friesland
43. Fulgens
44. Galatea (possibly)
45. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
46. Gardenia
47. Geneva
48. George fisher
49. Georgia (for'd part)
50. Glen derry (probably)
51. Glynn
52. Hauxley (possibly)
53. Hector gannet
54. Helena
55. Hms agate
56. Hms cantatrice
57. Hms cloughton wyke
58. Hms dhoon (probably)
59. Hms dungeness
60. Hms force
61. Hms francolin
62. Hms glen prosen
63. Hms irvana (part of)
64. Hms kaphreda
65. Hms m a west (probably)
66. Hms pelton (probably)
67. Hms tonbridge
68. Hms tranio
69. Hms true accord (probably)
70. Hms washington (probably)
71. Hms william stephen
72. Hmsm c 11
73. Hmsm d5
74. Homefire
75. I t l anna b
76. Ilse
77. Ionian (probably)
78. King egbert
79. Knitsley (part of)(probably)
80. Knitsley (possibly)
81. La perouse (possibly)
82. Langeli (possibly)
83. Leelite
84. Londoner (probably)
85. Marsworth
86. Meriones
87. Montferland
88. Murdoch (probably)
89. Navarra (possibly)
90. Nereus
91. Nordborg (possibly)
92. Norman queen
93. Oil trader
94. Ole bull
95. Osprey
96. Otter
97. Oxshott (possibly)
98. Pacific (possibly)
99. Pegrix
100. Pluton
101. Polaris
102. Prima
103. Regain
104. Robrix
105. Rogate
106. Roine
107. Rose marie
108. Roxanna
109. Roy
110. Rye
111. Seagull
112. Seaham
113. Sheaf water
114. Sir william stephenson
115. St mark
116. Stanmount
117. Thomas m (possibly)
118. Tregantle (possibly)
119. Trevethoe
120. Upminster
121. Vanguard
122. Varoy
123. Vigo
124. Viola (possibly)
125. Waldinge
126. Walkure
127. War valley
128. Whintown (possibly)
129. White swan
130. White swan (possibly)
131. Willowpool
132. Xanthe
133. 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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