This is the information page about the shipwreck Davaar, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 17 N,5 32.464 W (55.27305, -5.5877166666667)

 

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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.

 

1. Agba
2. Alamance (probably)
3. Argyle (possibly)
4. Bonvilston
5. Buffalo (possibly)
6. Byron darnton
7. Davaar
8. Dettifoss
9. Dove of oban
10. Empire adventure
11. Empress of japan (possibly)
12. Ethel crawford
13. Falcon
14. Foxy lady
15. Glenhead
16. Harvest hope (possibly)
17. Hms adept (possibly)
18. Hms breda
19. Karen
20. Lairdscastle (probably)
21. Lupina
22. Menck
23. Middleton (probably)
24. Mobeka
25. Nyanza (possibly)
26. Ospray ii
27. Perelle (possibly)
28. Quesada (possibly)
29. Quesada (possibly)
30. Sandhurst
31. Setter (possibly)
32. St conan
33. U 776
34. Ub 82 (possibly)
35. Ub-85 / ub-82?
36. Wilmere (probably)

 

Name: DAVAAR

Length 50.3 meter, width: 7.3 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 268 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,granular or powdery material

Cause: built in 1787 by campbeltown shipbuilding co ltd. owned at time of loss by matthew louden, glasgow. one boiler, compound expansion engine, single shaft. passage glasgow for limerick. grounded on patterosn's rock due to navigation error. sold at auction in jan 1879 & later salvaged. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1986

Water depth above wreck: 12 meter

Known since: 1986, last detected: 1994

Details measurements/cartography: H1310/86/36 22.12.86 ASHORE ON PATTERSONS ROCK, SANDA ISLAND. (P.J. MOIR, DTD 26.11.86). NCA, POSN 551700N, 053224W. 18.3.10 DUE TO SALVAGE ACTIVITIES THE ONLY LARGE ITEM REMAINING IS THE BOILER AMID SCATTERED & FLATTENED DEBRIS IN GEN DEPTH 12MTRS. (ARGYLL SHIPWRECKS, PUBLISHED 1994)
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: HIGHEST POINT IS BOILER LYING AMID FLATTENED WKGE

Position: 55 17 N,5 32.464 W

 

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