This is the information page about the shipwreck Gwladmena, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 60 8.17 N,1 8.67 W (60.342516666667, -1.0269666666667)

 

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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. Anglo dane
2. Borodinskoye polye
3. Braer
4. Day dawn
5. Fitful head
6. Flynderborg (possibly)
7. Fraoch ban
8. Girdleness
9. Gk 41/gr 41
10. Glenisla
11. Goodwill merchant
12. Green lily
13. Gwladmena
14. Havaldan
15. Hms asia
16. Hms cheerful
17. Leonatus
18. Lunohods-1
19. Miss lucy 11
20. Murrayfield (possibly)
21. Ocean maid
22. Pionersk
23. Quiet waters
24. River lossie
25. Samba
26. Sea mist
27. Slavonic (probably)
28. Uc 55 (possibly)
29. Valkyrie
30. Verdant

 

Name: GWLADMENA

Length 67.1 meter, width: 9.1 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 928 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-mary hough, ex-maggie warrington. built of iron in 1876 by r irvine & co, west hartlepool. two boilers, compound expansion engine of 136 hp built by blair & co, stockton on tees, single shaft. owned at time of loss by stoue & rolfe of liverpool. passage from methil for lerwick. sank after collision with danish ss flora. all crew saved. (sibi & shipwrecks of n scotland, baird)

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 35 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2007

Details measurements/cartography: HH1310/88/32 29.6.88 HH1310/88/32 29.6.88 SITS UPRIGHT, IN 600824N, 010748W APPROX, ON SANDY BOTTOM. LEAST DEPTH APPROX 35MTRS. UPPERWORKS, MAST & PROPELLER HAVE BEEN REMOVED. HAS GUN ON STERN. BELL WITH NAME MAGGIE WARRINGTON HAS BEEN RECOVERED. (M JOHNSON) NCA, COVERED BY WK GLENISLA IN SAME POSN. 27.9.00 27.9.00 WK NOW CHARTED AS WK USC PA 30MTRS, AS GLENISLA LOCATED 4.3C S. POSN WILL BE INVESTIGATED FURTHER. (LERWICK PORT AUTHORITY/G DENSLOW TELECON 26.9.00). RETAIN AS WK USC PA 30MTRS. NE 3271. HH270/400/09 15.11.00 HH270/400/09 15.11.00 NOT LOCATED DURING CLOSE ES SEARCH. WK NO LONGER EXISTS. (LERWICK HARBOURMASTER, LTR DTD 9.11.00). AMENDED TO DEAD. DELETE.

- NM 4837/00. 8.10.07 8.10.07 POSN 6008.201N, 0108.637W. ALMOST INTACT & UPRIGHT, LEAST DEPTH 34MTRS IN 39MTRS, BOWS N. BRIDGE LIES ON STARBOARD SIDE TOGETHER WITH WINCH, HAWSER & GUN, WITH CARGO OF COAL STREWN ON SANDY SEABED. PORT ANCHOR LIES ON SEABED. PROPELLER SALVAGED, SHAFT EXPOSED. (SHIPWRECKS OF N SCOTLAND) 8.10.07 8.10.07 LOCATED & DIVED IN 6008.170N, 0108.670W [WGD]. BOILERS & BOW ARE HIGHEST POINTS, STANDING 5MTRS OFF SEABED, MUCH OF WRECK IS BURIED IN THE SAND. (K HEATH, TELECON 8.10.07) RE-INS AS WK 30MTRS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 5113/07.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BOILERS & BOW HIGHEST POINT, MUCH OF WK BURIED IN SAND

Position: 60 8.17 N,1 8.67 W

 

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