This is the information page about the shipwreck Bothal, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 27.146 N,2 27.848 W (58.43595, -2.5026666666667)

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: Bothal

Length 83.8 meter, width: 12.5 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 2109 ton

Cause: two boilers, triple expansion engine, single shaft. torpedoed and sunk u 19. passage frederikshavn for blyth. five lost.

Year of registration: 1979

Water depth above wreck: 64 meter, Height above seabed: 115 cm

Known since: 1979, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: SANK IN 582100N, 022200W. (WW2SL). VIKING REPD IN SAME POSN. H3060/79 22.10.79 FV ANTARES REPORTS CATCHING GEAR ON UNCHARTED WK IN 582724N, 022800W [OGB]. POSN BY DECCA. (MRSC MORAY, TLX 25.10.79). INS AS NDW.

- NM 2615/79. 8.10.12 EXAM'D 20.5.12 IN 5827.146N, 0227.848W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 56.43 IN GEN DEPTH 64MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 72.4MTRS, WIDTH 20.5MTRS, HT 7.5MTRS. LIES APPROX 115/295 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. UPRIGHT, BROKEN MIDSHIPS. (NETSURVEY, HI 1372). SEP 2013/000130682 1.7.13 INS BY NM.

- NM 3187/13. 29.11.21 SS BOTHAL IDENTIFIED BY A MARKERS PLATE RECOVERED BY A DIVER OFF THE MV JEAN ELAINE. (E-MAIL DTD 25/11/2021 - KEVIN HEATH). ADD "SS BOTHAL" TO OBJNAM.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN IN TWO PLACES

Position: 58 27.146 N,2 27.848 W

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