This is the information page about the shipwreck Boyne castle (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 7.965 N,2 0.433 W (56.283333333333, -14.2)

 

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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. Aikaterini
2. Alida gorthon
3. Ampleforth
4. Ardgour ii
5. Astra ii
6. Auriac (probably)
7. Ballochbuie (possibly)
8. Baron st jernblad
9. Baron stjernblad
10. Bear
11. Borgland
12. Boyne castle (possibly)
13. Captain
14. Centaruo i
15. Dalblair
16. Dione ii
17. Einar jarl (probably)
18. Empire moose
19. Ex-hmsm h 11
20. Fellside
21. Fylgia
22. Gaslight (parts of)(possibly)
23. Gasray (part of)(possibly)
24. Glanmire
25. Gyda
26. Halland (probably)
27. Hansa
28. Har zion
29. Harley (part of)(possibly)
30. Hms pathfinder
31. Hms strathrannock
32. Hmsm k17
33. Hmsm k4
34. Jonkoping ii (probably)
35. King robert
36. Loch lomond
37. Mandros
38. Martin goldschmidt
39. Nerissa
40. Northards
41. Odense
42. Olympier
43. Onoba
44. President
45. Rushpool
46. Sabbia
47. Scotia
48. Sea hunter
49. Sesostris
50. Shakespeare
51. Tillycorthie
52. Tortuguero
53. U 1103
54. U 1194
55. U 12
56. U 2354
57. U 3514
58. U 532
59. U 714
60. Victor ross
61. Victoria

 

Name: BOYNE CASTLE (POSSIBLY)

Length 35.7 meter, width: 6.7 meter, draught: 2.6, tonnage 245 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1909 by dundee sb co ltd, dundee. owned at time of loss by banffshire steam shipping co ltd. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 60nhp, single shaft. passage macduff for sunderland. captured by german submarine ub 22, and sunk by gunfire. (ww1sl & sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 48 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2008

Details measurements/cartography: 15.2.71 SUNK 12M N BY E FROM ST ABBS HEAD. (WW1SL). POSN 560630N, 020400W FOR FILING ONLY. HH091/051/01 22.1.04 EXAM'D 2.11.03 IN 5607.965N, 0200.433W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 43.2 IN GEN DEPTH 48MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 25MTRS, WIDTH 6MTRS. DCS3 HT 5MTRS. LIES 090/270 DEGS WITH BOWS TOWARDS 270 DEGS. INTACT. NFS. (NP 1008, HI 1051). SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. INS AS WK 43MTRS. BR STD. HH242/640/06 29.1.04 INS BY NM.

- NM 1306/04 [PNM 1307/04 ISSUED FOR BA 175, 1407]. 8.7.08 LOCATED USING GPS IN LISTED POSN & DIVED ON 2.5.08. WK IS BOYNE CASTLE SUNK 1917 BY GERMAN SUBMARINE UB 22. STANDS 5MTRS HIGH. LENGTH 25MTRS, BEAM 6MTRS, LYING E/W, BOWS E. SCOUR DEPTH 1MTR, SCOUR LENGTH 20MTRS, SCOUR ORIENTATION 090/270DEGS ON PORT SIDE. DEBRIS FIELD LENGTH 25MTRS, 0.5MTRS HIGH, ORIENTATION 090/270DEGS, 15MTRS OFF STARBOARD SIDE PARALLEL WITH WK. BOW SECTION INTACT & LYING ON PORT SIDE. MID-SECTION FLATTENED & BROKEN UP, CONSISTENT WITH SHELL/EXPLOSION DAMAGE STANDING ABOUT 1MTR HIGH. INTACT AT ENGINE & BOILER WITH BRIDGE STRUCTURE & INSTRUMENTATION HAVING COLLAPSED INTO THE ENGINE ROOM AREA, THIS IS HIGHEST POINT OF WK WITH SOME SUBSTANTIAL BEAMS & SUPPORTS STANDING 5MTRS OFF THE SEABED. STERN IS FAIRLY BROKEN BUT APPEARS TO STAND UPRIGHT, 2-3MTRS HIGH. LARGE DEBRIS FIELD 0.5MTRS HIGH, MAINLY COAL & LIGHT SUPERSTRUCTURE, 10-15MTRS OFF THE STARBOARD SIDE. NO CARGO APPARENT APART FROM COAL FROM THE BUNKERS, CONFIRMING VESSEL WAS IN BALLAST AT TIME OF SINKING. SKETCHES SUPPLIED. (S ADAMS & I EASINGWOOD, E-MAIL, 8.7.08) CINC REQUESTED. NCA
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 56 7.965 N,2 0.433 W

 

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