This is the information page about the shipwreck Fraoch ban, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 60 8.195 N,1 2.681 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. Borodinskoye polye
3. Day dawn
4. Destiny
5. Fitful head
6. Flynderborg (possibly)
7. Fraoch ban
8. G-beid
9. Girdleness
10. Gk 41/gr 41
11. Glenisla
12. Goodwill merchant
13. Green lily
14. Gwladmena
15. Havaldan
16. Hms asia
17. Hms cheerful
18. Kennemerland
19. Leonatus
20. Lunohods-1
21. Miss lucy 11
22. Murrayfield (possibly)
23. Ocean maid
24. Pionersk
25. Quiet waters
26. River lossie
27. Samba
28. Sea mist
29. Slavonic (probably)
30. Uc 55 (possibly)
31. Valkyrie
32. Verdant

 

Name: FRAOCH BAN

Length 15.1 meter, width: 5.7 meter, draught: 1.7, tonnage 23 ton

Cause: ex-crystal sea. built in 1978. owned at time of loss by brian robb. capsized and sank as nets were being hauled. crew recovered. (mrsc shetland & fishing news).

Year of registration: 1999

Water depth above wreck: 27 meter

Known since: 1999, last detected: 2006

Details measurements/cartography: HH270/400/08 18.8.99 HH270/400/08 18.8.99 SANK IN 6007.0N, 0102.0W [OGB] POSN APPROX. (MRSC SHETLAND, FAX DTD 15.8.99). INS AS WK USC PA 45MTRS.

- NM 3663/99. 31.8.06 SEP 2006/379106 31.8.06 LOCATED IN 6008.195N, 0102.681W [WGD] USING DGPS. LYING ON STARBOARD SIDE. (LOCATED BY I TRUMPESS, K HEATH, TELECON DTD 31.8.06). GEN DEPTH 27MTRS. AMEND WK USC 20MTRS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 4668/06.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: STEEL HULL

Position: 60 8.195 N,1 2.681 W

 

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