This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms lively, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 10.61 N,6 15.533 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 LIVELY

Length 67.1 meter, width: 8.5 meter, tonnage 985 ton

Cause: wrecked on the chicken rock, eye peninsula, near stornoway.

Year of registration: 1970

Water depth above wreck: 16 meter

Known since: 1970, last detected: 1985

Details measurements/cartography: H4427/70 25.9.70 SOME REMAINS OF WHAT IS REPD AS HMS LIVELY LIE IN AREA OF CHICKEN ROCK. MOSTLY METAL PARTS IN GEN DEPTH VARYING FROM 40 TO 100FT. WHAT APPEARS TO BE A COPPER NAIL RECOVERED MEASURES 0.75 INCHES DIAMETER AND 22 INCHES LENGTH. (CAPT P O FALCONER, 23.9.70). POSN 581038N, 061528W [OGB] FOR FILING ONLY. N/CP55091/70 5.10.70 APPLICATION TO PURCHASE HMS LIVELY MADE BY A F MACLEOD OF STORNOWAY, WHO HAS REPORTED LOCATING SEVERAL COPPER BOLTS, PRESUMED TO BE FROM THIS WRECK, HMS LIVELY. H2438/76 2.3.76 AREA IMEDIATELY NORTH OF CHICKEN ROCK BN INVESTIGATED BY DIVERS. WK BROKEN UP. PARTS SCATTERED OVER A WIDE AREA INCLUDING PADDLE WHEEL AND AMOUNTS OF NON-FERROUS METAL. (HMS HERALD, HI 24/75). H4893/77 6.11.78 NO EVIDENCE OF WK BETWEEN NW THROUGH W TO S OF CHICKEN ROCK. COPPER CLADDING SHEETS & NON-FERROUS FRAGMENTS FOUND IN CREVICES ON E SIDE OF CHICKEN ROCK AT 5-10MTRS DEPTH. (RAF CONINGSBY SAC, MAY'78). H4893/77 23.8.79 LIES ON SE SIDE OF CHICKEN RK IN 10MTRS. WRECKAGE WELL SCATTERED IN ROCK GULLIES. TWO PADDLE WHEELS ARE WHOLE & LARGE IRON FLYWHEEL LIES TO E OF SITE. NOTHING STANDS ABOVE SURROUNDING ROCK REEFS. (RAF CONINGSBY SAC - 1979) H1310/85/40 14.11.85 DIVED ON 23.8.85. LIES IN DEPTH 14-16MTRS AND CONSISTS MAINLY OF PLANKING IN TWO MAIN AREAS. PADDLE WHEELS WERE SIGHTED. (RAF LOSSIEMOUTH, SAC EXPED REPORT, 17.10.85).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ONLY PLANKING AND TWO PADDLE WHEELS REMAIN

Position: 58 10.61 N,6 15.533 W

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