This is the information page about the shipwreck Bay fisher, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 28.167 N,2 19.296 W (56.522716666667, -2.3277666666667)

 

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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. Anu (probably)
2. Ardgour ii
3. Asta (probably)
4. Aurora
5. Ballochbuie (possibly)
6. Bay fisher
7. Clara gwynne
8. Clint
9. Einar jarl (probably)
10. Fylgia
11. Grenmar (possibly)
12. Harley (part of)(possibly)
13. Herrington
14. Hms beathwood (probably)
15. Hms braconburn (possibly)
16. Hms embley
17. Hms nordhav ii (part of)(possibly)
18. Hms nordhav ii (possibly)
19. Hms northumbria
20. Hmsm k17
21. Hmsm k4
22. Hoche
23. Island magee
24. Jonkoping ii (probably)
25. Lh 308 (possibly)
26. Maggie smith (possibly)
27. Mallard
28. Margaret rae
29. Northards
30. Primrose
31. Sneland 1
32. Storjen
33. Taurus (possibly)
34. Uc 41
35. Ugie (possibly)
36. Valhallah

 

Name: BAY FISHER

Length 50.2 meter, width: 8.2 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 575 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,personnel

Cause: built in 1919 by j lewis & son, aberdeen. owned at time of loss by the admiralty. one boiler, triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage scapa flow for rosyth. bombed by german aircraft. (ww2sl & sibi).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 48 meter, Height above seabed: 70 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2008

Details measurements/cartography: H0675/41 14.3.40 INS NDW IN 562730N, 022000W.

- NM 624/41. H3704/69 29.9.69 LOCATED IN 562809N, 021912W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LENGTH ABOUT 200FT. HIGH 25FT. LYING NE/SW ON A BOTTOM GENTLY SLOPING DOWN TO THE EAST. NO APPRECIABLE SCOUR. GOOD SONAR ECHOS. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 44/69). AMEND TO WK 22FMS. BR STD. H5202/69 15.11.72 AMEND BY NM.

- NM 2186/72. HH091/152/01 - SEP 2008/000080688 14.7.08 EXAM'D 19.2.08 IN 5628.167N, 0219.296W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 41.1 IN GEN DEPTH 48.0MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP EXTENDS 3MTRS TOWARDS 250 DEGS. LENGTH 35MTRS, WIDTH 16MTRS, HT 6.9MTRS. LIES 070/250 DEGS WITH BOWS WSW. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. DEBRIS EXTENDS 200MTRS TOWARDS 010 DEGS. DEGRADED WK. (GARDLINE, HI 1152). AMEND WK 41MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: DEGRADED WK, ?BOWS WSW

Position: 56 28.167 N,2 19.296 W

 

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