This is the information page about the shipwreck Grangemouth, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 44.492 N,0 27.705 E (53.6109, 0.26485)

 

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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. Ac 9
2. Acklamd (possibly)
3. Airdrie (possibly)
4. Amenity
5. Audacity
6. B o borjesson
7. Benmacdhui
8. Box hill
9. British councillor
10. British prince
11. Briton (possibly)
12. Cadmus
13. Catford
14. Cecil (possibly)
15. Chant 63
16. Chloris (possibly)
17. City of birmingham
18. Corhampton
19. Corinth (possibly)
20. Corland
21. Cramlington (possibly)
22. Cyclope
23. Diana
24. Dido
25. Dunsany
26. Empress (probably)
27. Ethel (possibly)
28. Exmoor
29. Faunus
30. Fermo
31. Flourish
32. Fowberry tower (part)
33. Fowberry tower (part)
34. Fryken
35. Gerhardt (possibly)
36. Girl kitty (possibly)
37. Giuseppe
38. Gluckauf (possibly)
39. Gothic
40. Grangemouth
41. Harlech
42. Harnis (probably)
43. Helmsman (probably)
44. Hms benvolio
45. Hms botanic
46. Hms calverton
47. Hms corfield
48. Hms cortina
49. Hms dervish
50. Hms egret
51. Hms fairy
52. Hms falcon (stern section)
53. Hms kos xvi (probably)
54. Hms lormont
55. Hms princess victoria
56. Hms strathborve (part)
57. Hms susarion
58. Hms warland (possibly)
59. Homer
60. Horsted
61. Hugh taylor
62. Ida
63. Ightham (possibly)
64. Inge marguerite (possibly)
65. Ionic (probably)
66. J b paddon
67. Jane (possibly)
68. Janet helen (possibly)
69. Jersey (probably)
70. John rettig (probably)
71. Kalo (probably)
72. Katina bulgari
73. Keynes
74. Kimberley (possibly)
75. Kingston cameo
76. Kyma
77. Ladas (possibly)
78. Lady anstruther (probably)
79. Lancaster (possibly)
80. Laurel (possibly)
81. Leonora
82. Lifeguard (possibly)
83. Lightship no 83
84. Lismore
85. Lord selborne
86. Lottie (possibly)
87. Lucerne
88. Maggie
89. Magnolia
90. Marie dawn
91. Marshall (probably)
92. Matanuska (probably)
93. Merchiston
94. Modig
95. Modiva (possibly)
96. Nautilus
97. Nimrod
98. Norfolk coast
99. Onward (possibly)
100. Ophir ii (possibly)
101. Orsa
102. Paraciers
103. Peebles (possibly)
104. Petroswift
105. Pilsudski
106. Polzella (possibly)
107. Portia
108. Rado (possibly)
109. Ravonia (part)
110. Ravonia (part) (possibly)
111. Rayford
112. Realf
113. Revello
114. Revi
115. Revigo (possibly)
116. Rhuys
117. Rievaulx abbey
118. Rivaulx
119. River don (part of)(probably)
120. Rochester (possibly)
121. Royston
122. Salacon
123. Salmondby
124. Saltoun
125. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
126. Schieland (possibly)
127. Scotia (possibly)
128. Sea pearl
129. Sota eduardo
130. Stylianos chandris
131. Tees
132. Thessaly
133. Togston (possibly)
134. Two brothers
135. Uc 47
136. Umbe
137. Upminster (possibly)
138. Varangmalm (possibly)
139. Vechstroom
140. Venture (possibly)
141. Vereingte (possibly)
142. Wayside flower (possibly)
143. Whitemantle (possibly)
144. Windsor (part of)
145. Winga

 

Name: GRANGEMOUTH

Length 83.8 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1419 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1908 by grangemouth & greenock dockyard co ltd. owned at time of loss by g gibson & co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 310hp, single shaft. machinery by dunsmuir & jackson ltd, glasgow. passage antwerp for the tees. general cargo. collided with s trawler sudanese. sank while under tow.

Year of registration: 1939

Water depth above wreck: 28 meter, Height above seabed: 145 cm

Known since: 1939, last detected: 20160409

Details measurements/cartography: H2341/39 4.4.39 SUNK IN 534400N, 002700E. ONE MAST SHOWS 4FT ABOVE LW. (SUPT TH, GREAT YARMOUTH, 25.3.39; TH NM 17/39). - TNM 698/39. H6517/39 13.10.39 LEAST DEPTH 40FT [LWST] AFTER DISPERSAL. (TH, 1.9.39). FTNM 2158/39 ISSUED RE UNLIGHTED BUOY. H6517/39 18.11.39 AFTER A FURTHER SURVEY LEAST DEPTH CONFIRMED. LIES IN GEN DEPTH 90FT [LWOST]. BUOY WITHDRAWN. (TH, 9.11.39). INS AS WK 6FMS 3FT IN 534400N, 002700E. - FNM 2568/39. H02045/43 10.7.43 LOCATED IN 534410N, 002758E. SWEPT CLEAR AT 11FMS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 11FMS 2FT [MLWS]. NOTHING COULD BE FOUND IN CHARTED POSN. (CAPT M/S HUMBER, 27.6.43). AMEND TO WK 11FMS.

- NM 1457/43. 20.3.72 AMEND TO WK 20MTRS. NC 121. 9.5.74 AMEND TO WK 19.3MTRS [LAT]. NC 121. H3805/72 28.2.78 EXAM'D 13.9.77 IN 534429.1N, 002750.4E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 20.6 IN GEN DEPTH 28MTRS. NO SCOUR. SONAR HT 6.5MTRS. LIES NE/SW, PROBABLY ON ITS SIDE. (SOISS, HI 54/77). BR STD. H1270/73 3.11.78 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. ENGINE STANDS 25FT HIGH. FORWARD HOLD INTACT, STERN COLLAPSED AND SCATTERED. (KIRKPATRICK, HUMBER DIVERS, TELECON 24.10.78). HH100/351/05 29.5.92 DIVED ON AUG '91 IN 534355N, 002733E. IDENTIFIED AS GRANGEMOUTH BY BRASS LETTERING ON STERN. (R J COLLINSON). NCA. SEP 2016/000053291 5.10.16 EXAM'D 9.4.16; IN 5344.492N, 0027.705E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 22.9MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 28MTRS, LENGTH 89.6MTRS, WIDTH 24.9MTRS, HEIGHT 5.3MTRS, ORIENTATION 325/145 DEGS. WRECK SITS ON ITS HULL BUT HAS BROKEN UP WITH STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (MMT, HI 1473). AMEND DW 22.5MTRS IN REVISED POSITION.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Wk Broken up

Position: 53 44.492 N,0 27.705 E

 

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