This is the information page about the shipwreck Glen, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 1.995 N,3 34.149 W (56.00645, -3.4027833333333)

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.

Name: GLEN

Length 50 meter, width: 8 meter, tonnage 471 ton
Load: armament

Cause: built 1935, with 3 cylinder triple expansion engine, 1 boiler, single shaft. owned at time by royal navy. thought to have hit a mine between grangemouth & crombie. on passage grangemouth to rosyth. (off scotland & shipwreck index of british isles)

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 6 meter

Known since: 1941, last detected: 1974

Details measurements/cartography: H1255/41 28.4.41 NDW LIES 268DEGS, 14.3C FROM EASTERN EXTREMITY OF CROMBIE PIER. (ADMIRALTY)

- NM 945/41. H1255/41 12.8.41 POSN AMENDED [POSN NOT QUOTED]. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED) BR STD. H4009/45 16.8.45 LEAST DEPTH OVER WK, 3FMS [5.5MTRS]. (KHM ROSYTH HN 31/45)

- NM 2480/45. 17.5.62 WK 3FMS 3FT SHOWN IN 560200N 033404W [OGB] ON FORTH CONSERVANCY BOARD SURVEY [K2576] DTD 1960. NE 114C. 7.8.74 NOW CHARTED AS WK 6.3MTRS [LAT]. NC 737. 9.11.06 EUT POSN: 5601.995N, 0334.149W. NE 737. RSDRA2022000305948 8.12.22 NOT LOCATED IN M/B DATASET 2018-2022 (FORTH PORTS LIMITED SURVEY, BDC H525.2 (LITE)). NFA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 56 1.995 N,3 34.149 W

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