This is the information page about the shipwreck Jane, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 60 38.463 N,0 56.617 W (60.42445, -0.72313333333333)

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: JANE

Length 60.1 meter, width: 8.6 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 840 ton
Load: fish

Cause: ex-jane cory. built of iron in 1870 by alexander withy & co, hartlepool, with one boiler, compound expansion engineof 77ihp, single shaft. owned at time of loss by w millar, gothenburg. passage balta sound for lerwick. cargo herring. drove ashore on linga. shortly after floated off and went ashore on the s side of sound grunay and sank. crew recovered. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1923

Water depth above wreck: 19 meter, Height above seabed: 40 cm

Known since: 1923, last detected: 2010

Details measurements/cartography: H5018/23 21.7.23 H5018/23 21.7.23 LIES 339DEGS, 6C FROM HAMARS NESS, FETLAR, OR 603822N, 005625W. (CG LERWICK, TELECON 20.7.23 & 23.7.23). INS AS DW WITH G CONL BUOY CLOSE S.

- NM ACTION. H6485/23 20.9.23 H6485/23 20.9.23 WK 6FMS IN 603830N, 005625W. (HMS BEAUFORT, HN 14.9.23). AMEND TO WK 6FMS IN REVISED POSN WITH BUOY.

- NM ACTION. H4723/26 23.7.26 H4723/26 23.7.26 DELETE BUOY. (NLB).

- NM ACTION. H3221/70 25.2.71 H3221/70 25.2.71 POSN AGREED FROM RADAR FIX. LEAST E/S DEPTH NOT OBTAINED DUE TO CLOSENESS OF ROCKS. DEPTH LESS THAN 17MTRS BY SECTOR SCAN SONAR. SEABED RIPPLED SAND ON COASTAL SLOPE WITH ROCKS ABOUT 70YDS TO LANDWARD OF WRECK. IDENTIFIED AS HULL OF SHIP SITTING SQUARELY ON BOTTOM WITHOUT PROJECTING UPPERWORKS, MASTS. ETC. LENGTH ABOUT 210FT. ORIENTATION 030/210DEGS. NO NOTICEABLE SCOUR ON SE FACING SIDE. APPEARS TO BE ENTIRE. (RV CLIONE, 27.7.70). 15.1.79 15.1.79 SHOWN AS WK 11.0MTRS IN 603822N, 005625W [OGB]. NC 3292. 24.4.04 24.4.04 LYING ON PORT SIDE WITH KEEL UPPERMOST, NO PROJECTING UPPERWORKS, ALTHOUGH LARGE PARTS INTACT, ENGINE ROOM ACCESSIBLE. (DIVE SCOTLAND, 1992 EDN). 24.4.04 24.4.04 EUT POSN: 6038.332N, 0056.537W. NE 3292. 5.10.06 5.10.06 NOT LOCATED IN JUN '06 BY MAGNETOMETER OR E/S. PROBABLY COVERED BY SEDIMENT. (G J LOCKETT). NCA. 18.8.09 18.8.09 DIVED 15.8.09 IN 6038.467N, 0056.606W [WGD]. STANDS 4-5MTRS HIGH BY E/S AT ITS HIGHEST POINT. SEEMS TO BE LYING ON ITS PORT SIDE AND IS HEAVILY BROKEN AT THE BOW. HAS NOT BEEN COVERED BY SEDIMENT. (B JAFFEY, EMAIL DTD 16.8.09). RETAIN WK 11MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 14.5.10 SEP 2010000049239 14.5.10 AMEND WK ON BA 3282.

- NM BLOCK 2619/10. HH091/335/01 3.8.10 HH091/335/01 3.8.10 EXAMINED 21.4.10 IN 6038.463N, 0056.617W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 13.87 IN GEN DEPTH 18-20MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 61MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS, HT 7.5MTRS. LIES 040/220DEGS. INTACT, LISTING TO PORT SIDE, LITTLE OR NO SCOUR. BOW APPEARS TO BE BREAKING AWAY FROM MAIN WK. SMALL AMOUNT OF DEBRIS LIES ON THE SEABED ADJACENT TO THE BOW. (MARIN MATTEKNIK, HI 1335). AMEND WK 13.8MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 16.9.10 16.9.10 LIES ON PORT SIDE, HIGHEST PART RISING 4MTRS ABOVE SANDY SEABED. GRADUALLY COLLAPSING BUT ANCHORS, PROPELLER & RUDDER STILL IN PLACE. BELL HAS BEEN RECOVERED. PHOTOS. (SHIPWRECKS OF THE N OF SCOTLAND, R BAIRD, 2003).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ON ?PORT SIDE, BOW HEAVILY BROKEN, ?BOW SW

Position: 60 38.463 N,0 56.617 W

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