This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms caribbean (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 12.843 N,5 43.955 W (58.241, -6.0403166666667)

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: HMS CARIBBEAN (PROBABLY)

Length 128 meter, width: 15.2 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 5820 ton

Cause: 19.11.1914 built in 1809 at govan. ex-dunnotar castle of the union castle line. renamed caribbean by the royal mail steam packey co. owned at time of loss by the admiralty. hired 19.11.1914 as a transport and later as an armed merchant cruiser. converted to accommodation ship during summer 1915 by cammel larid's, birkenhead. during return passage livepool for scapa flown took water fwd on 26.9.15 through open scuttles. later took further water, possibly due to damaged plates. finally sank vertically on 27.9.1915. 15 crew lost.

Year of registration: 1969

Water depth above wreck: 103 meter, Height above seabed: 135 cm

Known since: 1969, last detected: 1984

Details measurements/cartography: H2728/69 WK LOCATED. LEAST E/S DEPTH 51 IN GEN DEPTH 56FMS. (HMS FOX, 7 11 69). POSN NOT RECORDED. BR STD. H4551/76 7.12.76 LOCATED IN 581250N, 054350W USING DECCA. A 2 FUNNEL PASSENGER SHIP WITH A HEIGHT OF 52FT. (RISDON BEAZLEY, 27.10.76, SURVEYED IN 1956-57). NCA. H2883/83 8.8.84 EXAM'D 4.10.83 IN 581252N, 054353W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER. LEAST E/S DEPTH 88MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 103MTRS. SCOUR 0.5MTRS DEEP. DCS3 HT 14MTRS, LENGTH 118MTRS. LYING NW/SE. (LAND & MARINE, HI 159). BR STD. 1.2.01 CONSIDER THIS TO BE CARIBBEAN. (K HEATH, TELECON 1.2.01). NCA. 30.7.04 WK IS UPRIGHT, RELATIVELY INTACT BUT DECKS AND MOST OF THE SUPERSTRUCTURE HAS COLLAPSED. THE FOREMAST LIES ACROSS THE WRECK AND TWO ANCHORS ARE CLEARLY VISIBLE IN THE BOWS. A LARGE TRAWL NET HAS BEEN SNAGGED AND ABANDONED CLOSE TO THE BRIDGE, WHERE THE SUBSTANTIAL HELM LIES TOPPLED. (DIVER MAGAZINE, AUG 2004). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT

Position: 58 12.843 N,5 43.955 W

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