This is the information page about the shipwreck Grimsel, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 1.9 N,3 7.8 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: GRIMSEL

Length 76.5 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1398 ton
Load: personnel,grain

Cause: ashore on rocks at inchkeith. from salonica. (lloyds). built 1880 by redhead & co, south shields, with 2 cylinder compound engine of 130hp, 1 boiler, single shaft. owned at time of loss by m cay, south shields. passage salonica for leith. ran onto rocks on e side of inchkeith in thick fog. (sibi & shipwrecks of the forth & tay, b baird)

Year of registration: 1889

Water depth above wreck: 4 meter

Known since: 1889, last detected: 1990

Details measurements/cartography: STRANDED IN APPROX 560115N, 030730W [OGB]. (LLOYDS). INFORMATION TOO VAGUE TO CHART. NCA, 4.5.10 BROKEN REMAINS OF KEEL FROM THE BOWS TO THE BRIDGE, COVERED IN KELP, LIE IN SHALLOW WATER IN 5601.9N, 0307.8W [WGD]. BRASS BELL DOLPHINS & BELL CLAPPER RECOVERED IN 1990. THE STERN SECTION WITH ENGINE & BOILER WERE PRESUMABLY SCRAPPED. SHIPWRECKS OF THE FORTH & TAY, B BAIRD, PUBLISHED 2009) NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN REMAINS OF KEEL COVERED IN KELP

Position: 56 1.9 N,3 7.8 W

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