This is the information page about the shipwreck Chadwick, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 57 27.081 N,6 47.06 W (57.445833333333, -6.9883333333333)

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: CHADWICK

Length 76.2 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1463 ton
Load: coal

Cause: passage glasgow for st petersberg. ran aground in thick fog on a reef at the foot of a headland in oisgill bay, nw skye. crew recovered. slipped off rocks into deeper water after 4 days. (diver magazine dec'99 & jun'00).

Year of registration: 1975

Water depth above wreck: 5 meter

Known since: 1975, last detected: 1999

Details measurements/cartography: H" SUNK AT CLANNEACHE, W. SKYE. (DODS) [PRESUMABLY THIS SHOULD READ "AN CEANNAICH"]. NCA. 8.7.75 WK LOCATED IN 572712N, 064706W. THOUGHT TO BE 19TH CENTURY COLLIER - MUCH COAL LYING NEARBY. POSSIBLY HAD 3 FUNNELS. DEVICE ENGRAVED 'WILSON SINGLE SIGHT CORRECTOR-PATENT NO 933' FOUND ON WK. TO BE INVESTIGATED FURTHER. (S ROBINSON, EDINBURGH) NCA. H2887/83 8.4.86 INVESTIGATED BY SMB USING DCS3. NOTHING FOUND. QUANTITIES OF COAL HAVE BEEN WASHED UP ON BEACH AT OISGILL BAY, ACCORDING TO LOCAL KNOWLEDGE. ASSUME WK HAS BROKEN UP. (HMS FOX, HI 166). NCA. H1310/88/32 29.6.88 BROKEN UP REMAINS OF COLLIER CHADWICK LIES IN 572706N, 064700W [OGB]. DIVERS IDENTIFIED IT BY NAME FOUND ON PART OF THE BOW SECTION. (M JOHNSON). CLOSE INSHORE. NCA. 29.11.99 WK LIES INVERTED IN 15-25MTRS OF WATER. HULL COLLAPSED. BOW WELL TWISTED AND BROKEN. (DIVER MAGAZINE DEC'99, PHOTOS).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INVERTED

Position: 57 27.081 N,6 47.06 W

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