This is the information page about the shipwreck Juniata (fore part), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 57.828 N,2 54.78 W (58.963800, -2.913000)

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: JUNIATA (FORE PART)

Length 64 meter, width: 10.6 meter, draught: 5, tonnage 1137 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: ex- sprucol, built 1918 by short brothers, sunderland with 8 cylinder oil engines of 183hp, twin shaft. aft machinery by j & c.g. bolinders co ltd. originally owned by anglo-american oil company of hamilton. sunk by the admiralty as a blockship in water sound as part of no.4 barrier. (sibi) 25.6.49 raised on 25.6.49 and towed to inganess bay & beached, to be broken up. (k heath)

Year of registration: 1939

Water depth above wreck: 2 meter, Height above seabed: 37 cm

Known since: 1939, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: H4473/70 29.9.77 SHOWN ON AIR PHOTOGRAPHY FLOWN 21.6.75. DESCRIBED AS FORWARD SECTION OF A TANKER, SOME 200FT LONG, SUNK EARLY WW2, IN 585030N, 025400W, REFLOATED & TOWED TO PRESENT POSN: 585751.2N, 025440.5W. STERN SECTION MISSING. BADLY CORRODED, NO PLANS TO SALVAGE. (ORKNEY ISLANDS COUNCIL LETTER, DTD 6.9.77). MOST PROBABLY PART OF THE 'NANA'. SEE WK [1251]. CHART AS ST IN 585751N, 025440.5W. BR STD. 29.11.03 EUT POSN: 5857.827N, 0254.772W. NE 2584. 16.7.05 THIS IS THE FOREPART OF M TANKER JUNIATA. (K HEATH, TELECON 10.4.07). 5.10.10 EXAM'D IN 5857.828N, 0254.780W [WGD] USING DGPS. WK AND POSSIBLY RELATED DEBRIS EXTENDS FURTHER FROM SHORE. (FATHOMS LTD, POST SDC BATHY REPROCESSING). LENGTH 56MTRS. LIES 037/217 DEGS WITH BOWS SW. RETAIN ST IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BOWS SW, DEBRIS EXTENDS TO NE

Position: 58 57.828 N,2 54.78 W

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