This is the information page about the shipwreck Fitful head, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 60 15.901 N,1 11.915 W (60.342516666667, -1.0269666666667)

 

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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. Anglo dane
2. Anzac
3. Borodinskoye polye
4. Day dawn
5. Fitful head
6. Flynderborg (possibly)
7. Fraoch ban
8. Girdleness
9. Girl mandy
10. Gk 41/gr 41
11. Glenisla
12. Goodwill merchant
13. Green lily
14. Gwladmena
15. Hms asia
16. Hms cheerful
17. Kiaull marrey
18. Leonatus
19. Lunohods-1
20. Miss lucy 11
21. Murrayfield (possibly)
22. Pionersk
23. Quiet waters
24. River lossie
25. Samba
26. Sea mist
27. Slavonic (probably)
28. Uc 55 (possibly)
29. Valkyrie
30. Verdant

 

Name: FITFUL HEAD

Year of registration: 1934

Water depth above wreck: 7 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1934, last detected: 20170815

Details measurements/cartography: H2351/34 11.4.34 ST IN 601554N, 011142W. (BOARD OF TRADE M6660/34). BR STD. 22.7.80 THREE WKS, NOT TWO, EXIST IN CATFIRTH. BOILER, PROP SHAFT AND RIBS ARE ASHORE. ANOTHER IS VISIBLE AT LW WITH PART OF HULL INTACT. THE THIRD IS COMPLETE IN THE MIDDLE OF CATFIRTH AND DOES NOT SHOW. ALL BELONG TO HAY & CO, LERWICK. (SCOTTISH DIVER, MAY/JUNE 1980) NCA, SEE ALSO RECORD 000400221/55. 13.12.00 NOT SHOWN ON LARGEST SCALE 3284 [FEB 2001 EDN]. AREA BLUED OUT. SEP 2017/000078339 20.12.17 EXAM'D 15.08.17, IN 6015.901N,0111.915W [WGD]. LEAST WCD DEPTH 3.27 IN GEN DEPTH 7MTRS. LENGTH 115MTRS, WIDTH 115MTRS, HT 4.3MTRS, ORIENTATION 360/180 DEGS. AMEND DW 3.2MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 60 15.901 N,1 11.915 W

 

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