Wreck: Cairnglen (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Cairnglen, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 59.154 N,1 22.697 W (54.985900, -1.378283)
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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.
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Shipwreck details
Name: CAIRNGLEN
Length 122.2 meter, width: 16.8 meter, draught: 7.9, tonnage 5619 ton
Load: machinery and mechanical parts,general and mixed goods,rubber
Cause: built in 1926 by w pickersgill & sons ltd, sunderland. owned at time of loss by cairn line of steamships ltd. three boilers, triple turbine engines of 530 nhp, single shaft. machinery by parsons marine steam turbine co ltd, newcastle. passage montral for leith. drove ashore in fog. (sibi).
Year of registration: 1967
Water depth above wreck: 3 meter, Height above seabed: 10 cm
Known since: 1967, last detected: 2019
Details measurements/cartography: H96/67 22.11.67 REPORTED TO BE IN 545912N, 012236W [OGB]. LYING IN APPROX 3FMS ON SAND AND OVER REEF. WRECKAGE SCATTERED. ONE BOILER ON END AWASH AT LOW WATER. (T W L.JOHNSON, LTR DTD 19.11.67). H2433/71 22.4.71 NOT SHOWN ON ISS SURVEY HI 9/70. H2189/71 22.5.72 NOT LOOKED FOR. (ISS 1971). H1270/80 15.12.82 WELL BROKEN UP, LYING N/S. BOILERS AWASH AT LWST. WK OF SUBSTANTIAL SIZE. (BSAC WK REGISTER, VOL 6). INS AS DW. BR STD. HH090/796/01 31.12.98 NOT LOCATED. (GARDLINE, HI 796). AS PREVIOUSLY NOTED TO BE A BOILER, RETAIN AS CHARTED. NCA. SEP 2019/000043627 19.3.19 EXAM’D 19.3.19 IN 5459.154N, 0122.697W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 1.32MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 3MTRS. LENGTH 123MTRS, WIDTH 26.5MTRS, HT 2.1MTRS, ORIENTATION 010/190DEGS. HEAVILY DEGRADED, SLIGHT STRUCTUE AND OUTLINE VISIBLE ABOVE SEABED. (MERITAITO, HI 1513). AMEND DW 1.3MTRS IN REVISED POSITION.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: HEAVILY DEGRADED, SLIGHT STRUCTUE AND OUTLINE VISIBLE ABOVE SEABED
Position: 54 59.154 N,1 22.697 W
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