This is the information page about the shipwreck Clan macnab, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 21.432 N,5 52.652 W (50.161333333333, -5.6753333333333)

 

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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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Name: CLAN MACNAB

Length 117.4 meter, width: 15.2 meter, draught: 8.1, tonnage 4675 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1905 by w doxford & sons ltd, sunderland. owned at the time of loss by cayzer, irvine & co. three boilers, triple expansion engine of 413 nhp, single shaft. passage plymouth for glasgow. torpedoed by u-113 in heavy seas. 23 men lost. (ll ww1, ww1sl, dods & sibi, et al).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 69 meter, Height above seabed: 110 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 14M NNW FROM PENDEEN LTHO. (BMVS). GIVES POSN 502124N, 055237W APPROX. NCA. 12.11.75 NOW CHARTED AS USC PA 20FMS [37MTRS]. (TONNAGE KNOWN). NE 2649. H2613/78 10.3.78 WK LOCATED 3.9.77 IN 502124N, 055237W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 63.6MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 70MTRS. DCS3 HT 7MTRS, LENGTH 122MTRS, LYING 100/280 DEGS. ALMOST INTACT, APPEARS TO HAVE LARGE HOLE AMIDSHIPS. STERN PARTLY CRUSHED AND LYING ON SIDE. PROBABLY CLAN MACNAB. (HMS FOX, HI 42A/77). AMEND WK 63MTRS. BR STD. H2979/74 1.3.79 FF REPD IN 502146N, 055302W USING DECCA. (E GILES, 16.5.77). NCA. HH100/351/22 17.5.05 DIVED 1.5.05 IN LISTED POSN. A LARGE WK, UPRIGHT AND LYING E/W ON A SANDY SEABED IN GEN DEPTH 74MTRS. BOWS E ARE UPRIGHT WITH A SLIGHT LIST TO STBD AND FAIRLY INTACT. SIDES OF THE HULL ARE COLLAPSED OUTWARDS AND SHOW WK TO BE OF TURRET-DECK STEAMER DESIGN. THREE LARGE BOILERS IN LINE WITH A DONKEY BOILER LYING ALONGSIDE TO PORT. TRIPLE EXPANSION ENGINE. EVIDENCE OF SOME DAMAGE ALONGSIDE THE REARMOST BOILER AND ENGINE ROOM ON THE PORT SIDE, MOST PROBABLY DUE TO A TORPEDO HIT. ALMOST DEFINITELY IDENTIFIED AS THE CLAN MACNAB. (M ADES). NCA. 7.2.14 EXAM'D 3.12.13 IN 5021.432N, 0552.652W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 62.52 IN GEN DEPTH 69MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 120MTRS, WIDTH 31MTRS, HT 6.48MTRS. LIES 110/290 DEGS WITH BOWS E. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. COLLAPSED, BOILERS PROMINENT. (MMT. HI 1415). COLLAPSED. THREE BOILERS LIE ATHWARTSHIPS WITH ENGINE OVER TO STBD. BOWS W. AMEND WK 62MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, COLLAPSING, BOWS W

Position: 50 21.432 N,5 52.652 W

 

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