This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms dartmouth, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 30.18 N,5 42.015 W (56.409566666667, -5.4877833333333)

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 DARTMOUTH

Length 26.2 meter, width: 7.6 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 260 ton

Cause: wrecked in a storm, driven ashore and sunk. (ships of rn, vol.1). built 1655 by john tippets, portsmouth & refitted in 1678. was part of english forces trying to suppress the jacobite stronghold of duart castle when lost on eilean rubha an ridire after dragging anchor while sheletering from a storm in scallcastle bay. 126 of 132 crew lost. (argyll shipwrecks [drawing & site diagram], shipwrecks of the w of scotland [drawing], sibi)

Year of registration: 1973

Water depth above wreck: 9 meter

Known since: 1973, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: H3954/70 19.11.73 LOCATED IN 563012N, 054155W IN 15-30FT OF WATER. (BRISTOL UNDERSEA UNDERSEA ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP). H2529/74 17.5.74 DESIGNATED AS AN HISTORIC WK. (STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 458/74).

- NM 1109/74. H1270/79 12.2.79 HISTORIC WK PROTECTION REVOKED. (STATUTORY INSTRUMENT NO.6/79). DELETED. BR STD. H5249/76 10.6.82 IRON CANNON, ANCHORS AND SOME TIMBER SHOWING. (DIVER, 1982). 23.9.91 SUBSTANTIAL SURVEYING AND SALVAGE HAS TAKEN PLACE. ARTEFACTS ARE IN SCOTTISH MUSEUM. SITE NOW COMPLETELY KELP-COVERED SINCE WORK ON SITE CEASED. (DIVE NW SCOTLAND, G RIDLEY, 1985). 19.12.91 SIGNIFICANT ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE REMAINS ON THE SITE. CORRECT POSN IS 563011.5N, 054157W [OGB] AND A RADIUS OF 50MTRS WOULD INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED MATERIAL. A MODERN WK [SEE 2712], PART OF WHICH PROJECTS ABOVE THE SURFACE, LIES NEARBY. (ADU REPORT 91/17). TO BE RE-DESIGNATED AS AN HISTORIC WK. 9.7.92 AREA, RADIUS 50MTRS, CENTRED ON 563011.5N, 054157W [OGB], RE-DESIGNATED AS A RESTRICTED AREA UNDER PROTECTION OF WRECKS ACT, 1973. (STATUTORY INSTRUMENT NO.1229/92).

- NM 2279/92. 4.4.00 WELL SCATTERED, ANCHORS AND CANNON CONCRETED AND FESTOONED IN DENSE KELP. (DIVER MAGAZINE APRIL 2000) 15.3.07 [WGD] POSN: 5630.180N, 0542.015W. NE 2390. 20.9.13 PREVIOUS DESIGNATION REVOKED. REDESIGNATED UNDER MARINE (SCOTLAND) ACT 2010 FROM 1.11.13. (P ROBERTSON, HISTORIC SCOTLAND LTR AMB/105 DTD 17.9.13).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL SCATTERED

Position: 56 30.18 N,5 42.015 W

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