This is the information page about the shipwreck Express (main section), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 49.431 N,2 21.767 W (58.841266666667, -2.3266833333333)

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: EXPRESS (MAIN SECTION)

Length 42.6 meter, width: 7.2 meter, draught: 3.6, tonnage 331 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: ex- hebridean, iron ss, built 1881 by t.b. seath & co, rutherglen, glasgow, with 2 clyinder compound engine, 1 boiler. machinery by w king & co., glasgow. owned at time of loss by messrs cooper & son. on passage leith for kirkwall, cut in two & sank following collision with hms grenville off the pentland skerries. all 11 crew & 2 passengers lost. (k heath)

Year of registration: 2006

Water depth above wreck: 79 meter, Height above seabed: 35 cm

Known since: 2006, last detected: 2008

Details measurements/cartography: HH091/137/01 30.3.07 EXAM'D 12.8.06 IN 5849.4310N, 0221.7673W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 74.7 IN GEN DEPTH 79MTRS. SCOUR 0.7MTR DEEP EXTENDS 1.5MTRS TOWARDS 170 DEGS. LENGTH 38MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS, HT 4.3MTRS. LIES 035/215 DEGS WITH BOWS TOWARDS 215 DEGS. BOW INTACT, PARTALLY BURIED TO THE STERN. PORTION OF DEBRIS LIES CLOSE SW IN 5849.39N, 0221.80W. DIMENSIONS 7MTRS BY 5MTRS BY 4.5MTRS (SEE [69411], SEPARATE RECORD). (NETSURVEY LTD, HI 1137). INS AS WK 74MTRS. BR STD. 14.7.08 RESEARCH OF SURVEY DATA, VESSEL DIMENSIONS AND LOG OF HMS GRENVILLE CONCLUDES WK MUST BE SS EXPRESS. REPORTS CLEARLY STATE THAT VESSEL WAS CUT IN TWO. (K HEATH, E-MAIL 12.7.08) NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BOW INTACT, SLOPES TO SEABED AT STERN, BOWS SW

Position: 58 49.431 N,2 21.767 W

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