This is the information page about the shipwreck Blythville, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 41.596 N,6 32.006 W (55.924716666667, -6.2913)

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: BLYTHVILLE

Length 75.6 meter, width: 9.8 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1325 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1877 by w grey & co. west hartelpool. owned at time of loss by zapata ss co. one boiler, compound inverted engine of 120 nhp, single shaft. machinery by ne marine engine co ltd, sunderland. passage stornoway for swansea. stranded very close fisherman's rocks in fog, at night. slipped off rocks and sank. no lives lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1908

Water depth above wreck: 16 meter

Known since: 1908, last detected: 1975

Details measurements/cartography: 25.2.75 WRECKED NEAR RHINNS OF ISLAY LT, ISLAY. POSN APPROX 554018N, 063100W. (DODS & P L SELLARS, LTR DTD 11.2.75). H1280/76/11 20.1.76 LARGE MODERN WRECK FOUND IN 554136N, 063157W. POSSIBLY AROUND 1000 TONS. NUMEROUS SECTIONS OF MACHINERY AND DECK PLATING SCATTERED IN DEEP GULLIES. POSSIBLY THE BLYTHVILLE OR ZAPOTA. (REPORT 'ISLAY '75' BY THE RAF LONDON SUB-AQUA FEDERATION EXPED TO ISLAY, 12-21 SEPT 1975). 23.2.96 WK LOCATED AMONGST THE SOUTHERNMOST OF FRENCHMAN'S ROCKS IN 554136N, 061557W IN 1975. DESCRIBED AS A LARGE WK OF ABOUT 1000 TONS. WRECKAGE CONSISTING OF MACHINERY AND STEEL PLATES SCATTERED AMONGST GULLIES IN THE ROCKS. BELL RECOVERED IN 1983 AND IS ON DISPLAY IN THE MUSEUM OF ISLAY LIFE AT PORT CHARLOTTE. (SHIPWRECKS OF THE W OF SCOTLAND, B BAIRD). INS AS FOUL. BR STD. 28.1.13 NOT LOCATED. AREA TOO SHALLOW ACCESS. (NETSURVEY, HI 1362). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: IRON HULL

Position: 55 41.596 N,6 32.006 W

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