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 (50.6523667, -0.6161833)

 

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