This is the information page about the shipwreck Craigwhinnie, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 43.443 N,4 24.585 W (51.535133333333, -4.1645166666667)

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: CRAIGWHINNIE

Length 58.5 meter, width: 10.1 meter, tonnage 834 ton
Load: foodstuffs: solid,scrap metal,ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined

Cause: stranded due to loss of navigation instruments in bad weather, fog and inaccurate navigational information passed by another vessel, while on passage calcutta to hull. (shipwrecks around wales).

Year of registration: 1936

Water depth above wreck: -3 meter

Known since: 1936, last detected: 1996

Details measurements/cartography: H3924/36 8.8.36 ST IN 514324N, 042418W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H3351/62 16.8.62 ENQUIRY RE. POSSIBILITY OF MARKING WK. REPORTED ALSO WKGE OF ANOTHER SHIP, RESEMBLING A BUOY WHEN AWASH, CLOSER INSHORE. (SEE EITHER TEVIOTDALE OR PAUL). HH214/420/01 6.9.90 SHOWN IN 514325N, 042431W. (CARMARTHEN BAR NAVIGATION COMMITTEE, 30.6.90). NE 1076. 25.4.91 SHOWN IN 514327N, 042430W ON PHOTOPLOT PG 2043-FB1. (PHOTOGRAPHY DTD 21.5.90, INDEX NO.1925/229, SCALE 1:20,000). NCA. HH214/420/02 27.8.91 N CARD PERCH AFFIXED TO WK. STBD HAND BUOY, FL G 5S, LAID 230MTRS NNW OF WK. (CARMARTHEN BAR NAVIGATION COMMITTEE, 20.7.91). BR STD. HH214/812/01 19.4.96 MARKED BY AN UNLIT N CARDINAL BUOY 3 CABLES N. (CARMARTHEN BAR NAVIGATION COMMITTEE, LTR DTD 8.4.96). BR STD. HH214/812/01 18.6.99 NOT MARKED BY W CARDINAL AT PRESENT. (CARMARTHEN BAR NAVIGATION COMMITTEE, LTR DTD 26.5.99). DELETE. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 43.443 N,4 24.585 W

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