This is the information page about the shipwreck Barrister, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 36.01 N,10 18.05 W (53.600166666667, -10.300833333333)

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: BARRISTER

Length 135.9 meter, width: 17.4 meter, draught: 9.1, tonnage 6348 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1939 by ligthgows ltd, port glasgow. owned at time of loss by harrision line. three boilers, triple expansion engine of 867 nhp, single shaft. machinery by d rowan & co ltd, glasgow. passage north africa for the clyde. dispersed in fog from convoy after a submarine warning. was seen to be drifting about seven miles offshore, presumably after an engine breakdown. struck a reef w of inishark island and broke in two. (sii).

Year of registration: 1943

Water depth above wreck: 0 meter

Known since: 1943

Details measurements/cartography: H463/43 10.2.43 POSN 533600N, 101800W. NCA. FOR FILING ONLY.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 36.01 N,10 18.05 W

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