This is the information page about the shipwreck Gunnaren, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 44.759 N,3 3.661 W (58.745983, -3.061017)

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: GUNNAREN

Length 107.9 meter, width: 15.3 meter, draught: 3.8, tonnage 3229 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: bult in 1930 by akt. linholmen-motala, gothenburg. owned at time of loss by a/b transatlantic, sweden. oil engines of 543 hp. twin screw. passage new york for stockholm. cargo mail and mixed. drove ashore in thick fog. salvors decided to cut in two in attempt to save the undamaged stern section, but ground swell set in and broke vessel in tow. both sections later lost.

Year of registration: 1935

Water depth above wreck: -1 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1935, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: 25.2.72 LIES OF W SIDE OF SWONA ISLAND. VERY CLOSE INSHORE FROM A PINNACLE OF ROCK WHICH RIPPED OUT HER BOTTOM. BROKE IN HALF, STERN HALF SWUNG ROUND & CAME TO REST 100 YDS OFFSHORE. PARTS OF WK SHOW AT ANY STATE OF TIDE, BUT MOST HAS BEEN RIPPED AWAY BY SWELL. REMAINS ARE PROP SHAFT, BEARINGS, PARTS OF ENGINE, BOW, STERN & KEEL. (UNDERMARINE OPS LTD). 31.3.80 OBSTN SHOWN IN 584447N, 030334W ON AERIAL PHOTOS. (SORTIE NO.08 74 067 [1974]). INS AS OBP. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: PROP SHAFT, ENGINE, PARTS OF HULL REMAIN

Position: 58 44.759 N,3 3.661 W

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