This is the information page about the shipwreck Faro, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 54.742 N,2 45.964 W (58.834583333333, -3.0699333333333)

 

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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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5. Argyll
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8. Ben barvas
9. Benachie
10. Busy bee (part of)
11. Calf sound
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23. Duna
24. Edinboune
25. Elegance
26. Elton
27. Emerald wings
28. Empire seaman
29. Empire seaman
30. Excelsior
31. Faro
32. Gartmore
33. Giralda (possibly)
34. Gondolier
35. Gunnaren
36. Hastings county
37. Hmd lustring
38. Hmd lustring
39. Hmd lustring
40. Hms albacore (bow section)
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42. Hms loch garry
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55. Juanita
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57. Jv 526
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60. Loch maddy (bow section) (probably)
61. Loch maddy (stern section)
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64. Malta ii (probably)
65. Martis
66. Martis
67. Minieh
68. Naja (part of)
69. Napier star
70. Navena
71. Numidian
72. Numidian
73. Ocean racer
74. Pennsylvania
75. Pontos
76. Radiation
77. Reginald
78. Reinfield
79. Remus
80. Ros bui (?part of)(possibly)
81. Rosewood
82. Skua flaes beacon
83. St rognvald
84. Sunbeam
85. Svinta
86. Swiftsure
87. Tbf fn899
88. Teeswood
89. Tennessee
90. Thames
91. Thunfisch
92. U 18 (probably)
93. U 53
94. Ub 116

 

Name: FARO

Length 64.9 meter, width: 9.4 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 844 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: 27.1.40 one boiler, triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage sarpborg for methil. torpedoed about 15m se of copinsay lt on 27.1.40. went ashore in taracliffe bay, orkneys the following day. (ww2sl, ll ww2, axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 0 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1971

Details measurements/cartography: H095/40 POSN 574400N, 023400W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H01001/40 24.7.57 THE LATITUDE SHOULD READ 58DEG. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). POSN 585446N, 024552W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H2496/72 25.2.72 REPD IN 585446N, 024552W. RAN ASHORE AFTER BEING TORPEDOED. WK LIES CLOSE INTO THE BASE OF THE CLIFFS, WHICH ARE APPROX 100FT HIGH. VERY BADLY SMASHED BUT MOST OF THE ORIGINAL MATERIAL THERE & NOT WASHED AWAY. BOILERS & ENGINE & PROP SHAFT IN CORRECT RELATIVE POSNS & STERN IS INTACT, ALSO KEEL, BUT SIDES OF THE HULL HAVE FALLEN & ARE COVERED WITH WEED. BOWS ARE IN TWO HALVES WRAPPED ROUND ROCK. STEEL PROP. (UNDERMARINE OPERATIONS, 1971).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 54.742 N,2 45.964 W

 

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