Wreck: Glanmire (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Glanmire, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 55.217 N,2 8.256 W (55.920283, -2.137600)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: GLANMIRE
Length 73.8 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 1141 ton
Load: general and mixed goods
Cause: built of iron in 1888 by w b thompson & co, dundee. owned at time of loss by james rankine & sons. one boiler, triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage amsterdam for leith and grangemouth. general cargo. ran ashore 1/4 mile se of st abb's lt ho in thick fog. became a total loss.
Year of registration: 1981
Water depth above wreck: 27 meter, Height above seabed: 219 cm
Known since: 1981, last detected: 20200410
Details measurements/cartography: H1310/81/24 22.9.81 LOCATED IN 555515N, 020810W. WELL BROKEN UP. HIGHEST POINT BEING THE BOILERS WHICH STAND SOME 6MTRS ABOVE THE SEABED. GEN DEPTH AT 2HRS AFTER LWS ON 31.8.81 WAS 30MTRS. (W MURNEY). INS AS WK 22MTRS. BR STD.. 12.1.99 LIES 300MTRS OUT FROM ST ABB'S LTHO ON A FLAT SEABED AT 28MTRS. (DIVER MAGAZINE JAN'99). HH090/915/01 16.1.02 EXAM'D 24.6.01 IN 5555.228N, 0208.242W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 23.2 IN GEN DEPTH 27MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 106MTRS, WIDTH 22MTRS. DCS3 HT 6MTRS. LIES 039/219 DEGS. BROKEN UP WK. NOT SWEPT DUE TO LARGE NUMBER OF FISHING BUOYS. (GARDLINE, HI 915). AMEND TO WK 23MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. SEP 2021/000090526 1.4.21 EXAM'D 10.4.20 IN 5555.217N, 0208.256W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 22.96MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 27MTRS, LENGTH 96MTRS, WIDTH 35MTRS, HT 4MTRS, ORIENTATION 219/039 DEGS. WK UPRIGHT WITH BOW SECTION BURIED. (MERITAITO, HI1591). AMEND DW 22.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN UP, BOILERS HIGH POINT, FISHING BUOYS
Position: 55 55.217 N,2 8.256 W
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