This is the information page about the shipwreck Goodwill merchant, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 59 59.63 N,1 20.717 W (60.10575, -1.0897166666667)

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: GOODWILL MERCHANT

Length 59.7 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 468 ton
Load: machinery and mechanical parts,vehicles,general and mixed goods,portable buildings

Cause: built in 1962 by e j smit & zn's scheeps, westerbroek, with 8 cylinder oil engine of 116bhp, single shaft. owned at time of loss by a c hoff, rotterdam. passage grangemouth for lerwick. ran aground on ness of ireland, 2m n of st ninian's isle. crew of 8 rescued. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1976

Water depth above wreck: 16 meter

Known since: 1976, last detected: 2003

Details measurements/cartography: 21.1.76 RAN AGROUND 600000N, 012100W [OGB]. VESSEL LATER SANK STERN DOWN, WITH ONLY MAST VISIBLE. (LL, 21.1.76). NCA, POSN FOR FILING ONLY. 16.9.10 POSN GIVEN AS 5959.630N, 0120.717W [WGD]. WK IS COMPLETELY SMASHED TO PIECES UNDER CLIFFS, IN GEN DEPTHS 9-27MTRS. PROPELLOR & BELL RECOVERED IN LATE 1980'S. PHOTO OF VESSEL SINKING. (SHIPWRECKS OF THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND, R BAIRD, PUBLISHED 2003) NCA, EXISTING SCALES TOO SMALL.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 59 59.63 N,1 20.717 W

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