This is the information page about the shipwreck Girl may, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 16.935 N,3 54.48 W (54.290033333333, -3.9008833333333)

 

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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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Name: GIRL MAY

Length 25.3 meter, width: 5.8 meter, draught: 2.4, tonnage 81 ton
Load: construction materials

Cause: owned at time of loss by john runcie, frazerburgh. built in 1911 at frazerburgh. 34tons net. wooden ss. sprang a leak when 7m se of maughold head. pumps unable to control water. later burning distress signals seen by the steam trawler peter lovett, of fleetwood. crew all rescued safely by boat. (a corkill).

Year of registration: 1997

Water depth above wreck: 31 meter, Height above seabed: 270 cm

Known since: 1997, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: HH090/728/01 24.9.97 EXAM'D 7.8.97 IN 541655.6N, 035428.5W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 28.0, FOUL 28.3MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 28.3 IN GEN DEPTH 30.8MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 2.4MTRS. LENGTH 43MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS. LIES 020/200DEGS. (NP 1008, HI 728). APPARENTLY BROKEN UP. INS AS SW 28.0MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/13 24.6.98 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. DEFINITELY A SS OF A FEW HUNDRED TONS. MANY BRICKS PRESENT, EVIDENTLY PART OF THE SHIP'S CARGO. ALMOST CERTAIN THAT THIS WK IS 'AGNES ELLEN'. WILL BE DIVED AGAIN LATER THIS YEAR. (A CORKILL, FAX DTD 22.6.98). HH100/351/13 18.8.98 DIVED IN LISTED POSN ON 4.7.98. FOUND TO BE AN AREA OF BROKEN WRECKAGE CONSISTING OF IRON FRAMES AND TIMBER DEEPLY BURIED IN THE MUDDY SEABED AND GIVING NO SIGNIFICANT HEIGHT. THE IRON BOILER PROVIDES THE LEAST DEPTH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RECENT SURVEY AND LIES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WRECKAGE WHICH COVERS AN AREA OF APPROX 25MTRS. BELL RECOVERED, INSCRIBED WITH THE NAME 'GIRL MAY'. (K HURLEY). SEP 2022/000162611 01.06.20 EXAM'D BY BDC 01.06.20 IN 5416.935N, 0354.480W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 28.54MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 30MTRS. LENGTH 4.9MTRS, WIDTH 4.0MTRS, HT 2.25MTRS, ORIENTATION 270 DEGS. (CROGGS LTD SURVEY, BDC H525.2(LITE)). AMEND DW 28.5M IN REVISED POSITION.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: AREA OF BROKEN WRECKAGE, BOILER IS HIGH PT

Position: 54 16.935 N,3 54.48 W

 

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