This is the information page about the shipwreck Invergyle, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 18.748 N,1 25.61 W (55.295866666667, -1.17345)

 

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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. Acclivity
2. Albano
3. Alert (possibly)
4. Annie walker (probably)
5. Athelduke
6. Baltanglia
7. Bangarth
8. British officer (after part)
9. Buka
10. Bullger
11. Coquet mouth
12. Cor jesu (possibly)
13. Dolphin (ex-hms pandora).
14. Don (possibly)
15. Dora
16. Driebergen
17. Dutchman
18. Elziena
19. Elziena (possibly)
20. Espire
21. Eston
22. Eugenia chandris & oslofjord
23. Eugenia chandris (& oslofjord)
24. Eventide
25. Fenella
26. Ferryhill
27. Fingal
28. Firelight (possibly)
29. Gottfried (possibly)
30. Gudbrand (possibly)
31. H c flood (possibly)
32. H c flood (probably)
33. Hanne
34. Hazard (probably)
35. Hercules
36. Heros (possibly)
37. Hesvik (possibly)
38. Hms elise
39. Hms elise (possibly)
40. Hms ethel taylor
41. Hms herring
42. Hms james ludford
43. Hms kopanes
44. Hms mollusc (ex medusa)
45. Hms patia
46. Hms southsea
47. Hms star of devoran
48. Hms william hallet (possibly)
49. Hms witherington
50. Hmsm unity (probably)
51. Hooghammen
52. Hornchurch (probably)
53. Igor
54. Invergyle
55. Jolly girls
56. Jolly girls (possibly)
57. Jonkoping i (possibly)
58. Kalua
59. Kamma
60. Lafonia
61. Longbird
62. Lunesdale (possibly)
63. Lyng
64. Marne (part of)(possibly)
65. Mars
66. Morlaix (probably)
67. Nidelven
68. Nike (possibly)
69. Nyula
70. Olimpia/?olympia (possibly)
71. Peik (probably)
72. Pluto
73. Polleon (possibly)
74. Princess maud (possibly)
75. Protector (possibly)
76. Providence
77. Provider a
78. Prunelle
79. Queen wilhelmina
80. Ragnhild (possibly)
81. Ragni (probably)
82. Recorder (possibly)
83. Regian
84. Renen
85. Rio colorado
86. Rising sun
87. Rosa (possibly)
88. Sargasso (possibly)
89. Scott miller
90. Snowdrop (possibly)
91. Somali
92. Spey (possibly)
93. Sphynx
94. Spray
95. St fergus
96. Strinheim
97. Svava
98. Tadorne
99. The tetrarch (probably)
100. Tioga
101. U 1274
102. Ub 115 (possibly)
103. Upcerne
104. Wearsider

 

Name: INVERGYLE

Length 84.3 meter, width: 12.3 meter, draught: 5.6, tonnage 1794 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1906 at grangemouth. owned at time of loss by stewart & grey, glasgow. three boilers, triple expansion engine of 150nhp, single shaft. passage scapa flow for hartlepool. sank follwing explosion. all crew recovered. (sibi). sunk by submarine. (ww1sl).

Year of registration: 1915

Water depth above wreck: 47 meter, Height above seabed: 6 cm

Known since: 1915, last detected: 1999

Details measurements/cartography: SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 12 MILES NNE OF TYNE. (WW1SL). H4214/26 1.7.26 H4214/26 1.7.26 INS NDW PA (1915) IN 551900N, 012600W. BR STD. H460/67 30.3.67 H460/67 30.3.67 EXAM'D IN 551840N, 012544W [OGB] USING DECCA. SWEPT CLEAR 81FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 122FT IN GEN DEPTH 156FT. SEABED SAND AND MUD. (HMS ECHO, ROS DTD 21.9.66). AMEND TO WK 20FMS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 7.6.72 7.6.72 AMEND TO SW 13FMS. LC 1192. 14.32.74 14.32.74 AMEND TO SW 24.6MTRS. NC 156. H1270/85 14.10.86 H1270/85 14.10.86 CLEARANCE SWEEP ONLY. ACCEPT LEAST ECHO SOUNDER DEPTH OBTAINED BY HMS ECHO. AMEND TO WK 37MTRS. BR STD. HH090/843/01 30.12.99 HH090/843/01 30.12.99 EXAM'D 27.4.99 IN 5518.748N, 0125.610W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 41.5 IN GEN DEPTH 47.6MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 57MTRS, WIDTH 9MTRS. DCS3 HT 5.8MTRS. LIES 006/186 DEGS WITH BOWS 006 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. SEABED SAND. REASONABLY INTACT BUT STERN IS DETACHED. SUPERSTRUCTURE VISIBLE, LYING ON SIDE. (GARDLINE, HI 843). AMEND TO WK 41MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: MAINLY INTACT, SUPERSTRUCTURE VISIBLE, BOWS N

Position: 55 18.748 N,1 25.61 W

 

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