This is the information page about the shipwreck Beacon light, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 27.375 N,5 45.055 W (58.241, -6.0403166666667)

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: BEACON LIGHT

Length 94.8 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 8.5, tonnage 2763 ton
Load: machinery and mechanical parts,oil

Cause: built 1890 by armstrong, mitchell & co. ltd., newcastle-upon-tyne, with 3 cylinder triple expansion engine of 225hp, 3 boilers, single shaft. machinery by wallsend slipway co ltd., newcastle. owned at time of loss by bear creek oil & shipping co. ltd. on passage liverpool to scapa flow. torpedoed and sunk by german submarine u 91. 33 lives lost. (sibi)

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 112 meter, Height above seabed: 49 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 1984

Details measurements/cartography: H2480/19 22.3.19 SANK 15M SE FROM BUTT OF LEWIS. (SHIPS IN VICINITY). INS AS WK [OLD SYMBOL] (1918) PA IN 582400N, 054900W. H6997/29 AMEND TO NDW PA. H(W)0202/50 30.11.54 CONTACTED BY SONAR. GOOD ECHO. H2728/69 21.4.70 NOT FOUND IN SONAR SEARCH OF AREA, BUT SOME UNEXAMINED CONTACTS FOUND IN AREA COULD BE WRECK IN 582320N 054724W, SEE [69352]. (HMS FAWN, SURVEY [K5568/6]). DELETED. NE 2720. H2883/83 9.8.84 LOCATED & EXAM'D 28.2.84 IN 582724N, 054459W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER. LEAST E/S DEPTH 102.3MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 112MTRS. SCOUR 0.3MTRS. DCS3 HT 8MTRS, LENGTH 90MTRS, BEAM 15MTRS APPROX. LYING 049/229DEGS AND APPARENTLY UPRIGHT. (LAND & MARINE, HI 159). AMEND TO WK 102MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: PROBABLY UPRIGHT

Position: 58 27.375 N,5 45.055 W

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