This is the information page about the shipwreck Madame alice, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 27.248 N,5 29.516 W (56.409566666667, -5.4877833333333)

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: MADAME ALICE

Length 51.4 meter, width: 7.8 meter, draught: 3.1, tonnage 478 ton

Cause: ex-bay fisher. built in 1904 by the dublin dockyard co. owned at time of loss by t g beately & sons. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 72 nhp, single shaft. machinery by renfrew bros of irvine. passage fleetwood for stornoway. sank following a collision with hm yacht iolaire. all 17 crew rescued. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 35 meter, Height above seabed: 178 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: H1076/18 26.2.18 WK IN 562742N, 052910W. (OBAN CG).

- NM 337/18. H2480/19 22.3.19 POSN 562800N, 053000W. (VA STORNAWAY).

- NM 920/19. H6997/29 1.11.29 NOW CHARTED AS DW PA. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 2814A. H2482/34 13.6.34 NOT FOUND. (HMS BEAUFORT).

- NM 929/34. H1270/78 9.4.87 MADAME ALICE LOCATED IN 562712.5N, 052930.5W, FIXED BY DECCA. LYING FULLY INTACT AND NOT BROKEN, WITH LEAST DEPTH 32MTRS [MLWS], IN GEN DEPTH 43MTRS. (DIVER REPORT TELECON, 9.4.87). H1310/87/16 29.5.87 LOCATED IN 562716N, 052951W, FIXED BY DECCA. LEAST DEPTH 43MTRS. FULLY INTACT, ABOUT 150FT LONG, 35FT BEAM. 2 HOLDS AMIDSHIPS, BOTH SILTED UP. WHEELHOUSE COLLAPSED. SITTING UPRIGHT, BOWS SOUTH. MARKED BY WHITE PLASTIC CAN WHICH SHOWS ONLY AT LW. (R WALKER). NCA. H1310/87/36 21.9.87 LIES ON GENTLY SLOPING SEABED WITH LEAST DEPTH 32MTRS AT BOW. INTACT AND LYING WITH 45DEG LIST TO PORT. HOLDS OPEN AND EMPTY. NO HAZARD TO NORMAL NAVIGATION BUT INTERFERES WITH FISHING ACTIVITIES, NETS DRAPED OVER STERN AND BOW. POSN 562713N, 052908.5W. (G HIDE, EDINBURGH). AMEND TO WK PA 32MTRS.

- NM 3006/87. 7.8.97 FIXED BY DECCA. AMENDED TO WK 32MTRS. BR STD. 3.3.06 BOWS RISE 4MTRS ABOVE MUD, WITH NETS EXTENDING UPWARDS FOR ANOTHER 5MTRS. (SHIPWRECKS OF W OF SCOTLAND, B BAIRD, PUBLISHED 1995) 6.2.06 [EUT] POSN: 5627.199N, 0529.575W. NC 2388. 24.9.13 EXAM'D 16.11.13 IN 5627.2475N, 0529.5160W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 33.89 IN GEN DEPTH 35.3MTRS. SCOUR 4MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 48MTRS TOWARDS 170 DEGS. LENGTH 56.0MTRS, WIDTH 14.1MTRS, HT 5.50MTRS. LIES 178/359 DEGS WITH BOWS N (SIC). DEBRIS APPARENTLY EXTENDS 20MTRS TO E OF WK. INTACT, PARTIALLY BURIED IN MUD, LISTS TO PORT. (INIS HYDRO, HI 1354). LIES WITH BOWS S, DEBRIS EXTENDS E FROM S END. AMEND WK 33MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, BOWS S, LISTS 45DEGS TO PORT

Position: 56 27.248 N,5 29.516 W

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