This is the information page about the shipwreck Highland corrie, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 32.136 N,0 38.331 W (50.652366666667, -0.61618333333333)

 

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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. Afon dulais
2. Ala
3. Alaska
4. Algiers
5. Alison (possibly)
6. Angry fish
7. Ariel
8. Armenier
9. Arno (possibly)
10. Asger ryg
11. Atlas (probably)
12. Axwell
13. Basil-2
14. Cairndhu
15. Cambrian princess (probably)
16. Candia
17. Carbineer
18. City of mexico
19. Coral
20. Del rio
21. Donegal (possibly)
22. Duke of buccleuch
23. Fpt iv
24. Frode
25. Gartland
26. Gascony
27. Gerarda
28. Germa geisha
29. Giuseppina accame
30. Glenlee
31. Hedwig lunstedt
32. Highland corrie
33. Hmcs alberni
34. Hms apley (possibly)
35. Hms evadne (possibly)
36. Hms hazardous
37. Hms implacable
38. Hms kingston jacinth (possibly)
39. Hms moldavia
40. Hms northcoates
41. Hms pine
42. Hms prince leopold
43. Hms sapper
44. Hms vernon ii (possibly)
45. Hmsm a1
46. Indiana
47. Jaffa
48. Lightfoot (possibly)
49. Lola (possibly)
50. Lowmount
51. Marga
52. Marie marguerite (possibly)
53. Molesey (possibly)
54. Montecrana (possibly)
55. Ny-eeasteyr
56. Polandia (possibly)
57. Ramsgarth
58. Ramsholm (possibly)
59. Rfa hungerford (possibly)
60. Saint andre (probably)
61. Saint enogat
62. Shirala
63. Sines (possibly)
64. Spearfish
65. Stanwold
66. Stavros (possibly)
67. Syrinx (part of)(possibly)
68. Teelin head
69. U 1195
70. U 86 (formerly)
71. U 86 (possibly)
72. Uss osprey
73. Vesuvio (possibly)
74. Vigda
75. War helmet
76. Zaanstroom

 

Name: HIGHLAND CORRIE

Length 126.2 meter, width: 17.1 meter, draught: 8.2, tonnage 7583 ton
Load: foodstuffs: preserved,foodstuffs: solid

Cause: built in 1910 by russell & co. owned at the time of loss by nelson steam navigation co. four boilers, triple expansion engine of 837nhp, single shaft. passage la plata for london. torpedoed by ub-40. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 36 meter, Height above seabed: 179 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20180112

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 4 MILES S OF OWERS LTV. (LL WW1). H4121/76 11.1.77 LOCATED IN 503206N, 003814W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 31.1MTRS IN DEPTH 36MTRS. DCS3 HT 7MTRS, LENGTH 82MTRS. LYING E/W. VERY DISPERSED CONTACT. (HMS FOX, HI 52/76). CHART AS WK 29MTRS. BR STD. H1310/84/10 21.3.84 IDENTIFIED AS 'HIGHLAND CORRIE' AND PURCHASED NOV 1982. SALVAGE WORK OF LIGHT NATURE IN PROGRESS. (J SALSBURY 7.3.84). HH090/952/01 16.6.03 EXAM'D 16.6.03 IN 5032.136N, 0038.331W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 28.7, FOUL 29.1MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 28.6 IN GEN DEPTH 36-38MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 124MTRS, WIDTH 37MTRS. DCS3 HT 8.8MTRS. LIES 176/356 DEGS WITH BOWS N. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. WELL BROKEN. (GARDLINE, HI 952). AMEND TO SW 28.5MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2018/000198963 09.08.18 EXAM'D 12.01.18; IN 5032.136N, 0038.331W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 28.40MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS, LENGTH 130.8MTRS, WIDTH 26.9MTRS, HEIGHT 8.1MTRS, ORIENTATION 179/359 DEGS. WELL BROKEN UP. SOME OF THE HULL PLATE REMAINS BUT IS WELL COLLAPSED & DEBRIS IS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE SITE. THE SHOAL DEPTH IS FOUND TOWARDS THE S END, ON AN AREA OF PROTRUDING HULL PLATE. (MMT, HI 1498). AMEND DW 28MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP. SOME HULL PLATE REMAINS BUT IS WELL COLLAPSED.

Position: 50 32.136 N,0 38.331 W

 

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