This is the information page about the shipwreck Lucy anderson (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 25.737 N,1 23.408 W (58.333833333333, -1.4570666666667)

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: LUCY ANDERSON (PROBABLY)

Length 67.1 meter, width: 10.6 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1073 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1904 by wood skinner & co ltd. owned at time of loss by roberts & cooper ltd. torpedoed and sunk by gunfire from a submarine and u-44. 2 x screw, triple expansion engines of 133hp. machinery by ne marine eng co ltd, newcastle. passage hartlepool for gothenburg. crew recovered by ss st.clair. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 114 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 1979

Details measurements/cartography: 13.3.17 13.3.17 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 582640N, 011800W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H8203/19 H8203/19 SUNK 55M ESE FROM NOSS HD, WICK. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H3875/26 18.6.26 H3875/26 18.6.26 INS AS NDW (1917) (PD). BR STD. H1357/62 27.3.62 H1357/62 27.3.62 AMEND TO NDW PA. NC 1942. 21.8.78 21.8.78 AMEND TO WK USC PA 87MTRS. (TONNAGE KNOWN). NC 115. H3227/78 11.1.79 H3227/78 11.1.79 WK LOCATED IN 582546.6N, 012318.5W [EUR] USING PULSE 8. LENGTH 60MTRS, HEIGHT 10MTRS. GEN DEPTH 114MTRS. (MR WILLIAMS, DECCA SURVEY LTD, GT YARMOUTH, TELECON 3.1.79). AMEND TO WK 104MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 25.737 N,1 23.408 W

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