Wreck: Copeland (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Copeland, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 41.808 N,3 7.522 W (58.696800, -3.125367)
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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: COPELAND
Length 68.6 meter, width: 8.9 meter, draught: 4.7, tonnage 798 ton
Load: animals (land & sea) and birds,natural fibres and materials in general: unprocessed and products,fish
Cause: built of iron in 1874 by the london & glasgow co of govern. owned at time of loss by james gourley bridges of leith. single boiler, compound engine of 150 hp, single shaft. passage reigkjavik for granton. cargo ponies, baled wool and fish. stranded on langaton point after being lost in fog in variable easterly winds. the 482 ponies were lowered over the side and swam ashore, but a local newspaper reported that over 110 drowned in no 2 hold. broke in two seven days later, the bow remaining on the rocks and the stern sinking.
Year of registration: 2001
Water depth above wreck: 30 meter
Known since: 2001, last detected: 2009
Details measurements/cartography: 20.2.01 20.2.01 DIVED IN 5841.808N, 0307.522W [WGD]. WK IS WELL BROKEN UP IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS. HIGHEST POINT IS THE UP-ENDED BOILER WITH A HT OF 3MTRS. CINC REQUESTED. (K HEATH, TELECON 20.2.01). CHARTED DEPTH 30MTRS. INS AS WK 26MTRS. BR STD. 31.3.09 31.3.09 CINC REMOVED. MORE THAN 5 YEARS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP, BOILER ON END IS THE HIGHEST POINT
Position: 58 41.808 N,3 7.522 W
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