This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms embrace, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 57 9.05 N,5 47.95 W (57.017033333333, -6.0438)

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 EMBRACE

Length 26.3 meter, width: 5.6 meter, draught: 2.8, tonnage 94 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: drifter, built 1907, hired march 1915-1919, and may 1940 as harbour defence patrol craft. grounded in loch alsh. (ships of royal navy vol.2) vessel, built by mackie & thomson ltd, glasgow, with 3 cylinder triple expansion engine. owned at time of loss by mcpherson william and hopeman. foundered in loch alsh. (shipwreck index of british isles)

Year of registration: 1976

Water depth above wreck: 5 meter

Known since: 1976, last detected: 2005

Details measurements/cartography: 26.8.76 WRECK, PRESUMED TO BE THE 'EMBRACE', LIES OFF THE COAST OF SKYE, NEAR ORNSAY, IN 570930N, 054712W. LOCATED BY SUB-AQUA DIVERS FROM INVERNESS WHO ARE TRYING TO PURCHASE IT. (N/CP55393/76 REFERS). INFORMATION TOO VAGUE TO CHART. HH100/351/22 31.3.05 LOCATED & DIVED 26.3.05 IN 5709.05N, 0547.95W [WGD] USING DGPS. INVERTED, BADLY BROKEN & COLLAPSED, PROPELLOR VISIBLE AT LOW WATER. LIES IN GEN DEPTH 4-6MTRS. AMMUNITION LIES WITHIN WRECKAGE. (ANDY HUNT, VISIT TO UKHO 30.3.05). INS AS WK DRIES. BR STD. 6.10.07 SHOWN AS ST IN 5709.050N, 0547.950W [EUT]. NE 2540.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INVERTED, BADLY BROKEN, PROPELLOR DRIES

Position: 57 9.05 N,5 47.95 W

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