This is the information page about the shipwreck Blairangus, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 18 N,22 21 W (55.333333333333, -22.5)

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: BLAIRANGUS

Length 115.8 meter, width: 15.8 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 4409 ton

Cause: built in 1930 by crain taylor & co. owned at time of loss by clydesdale navigation co (george nisbet & co). triple expansion engine of 375nhp for 10.5kts. torpedoed & sunk by u-48. (dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 2500 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK APPROX 350 MILES W BY N OF ROCKALL. (DODS). 8.7.87 8.7.87 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 551800N, 222100W. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). PLOTS IN OVER 2000 MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 55 18 N,22 21 W

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