This is the information page about the shipwreck Maja, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 19 N,5 14.7 W (54.480516666667, -5.4166666666667)

 

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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.

 

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3. Archbald finney
4. Audentia
5. Ave maria
6. Barrister (possibly)
7. Be ready (probably)
8. Calista (probably)
9. City of mobile
10. Coalman
11. Conargo
12. Daybreak (probably)
13. Downshire (possibly)
14. Dunmore
15. Florrieston (probably)
16. Frieda
17. Fulmar
18. Georgetown victory (part of)
19. Georgetown victory (part of)
20. Harold
21. Helgoland
22. Hunsdon
23. Inverurie
24. Jenemi
25. Kafue
26. Kilbroney (probably)
27. Lagun
28. Largo (possibly)
29. Leeds city
30. Loch sunart
31. Maja
32. Marianne toft (possibly)
33. Megawatt
34. Moonlight (possibly)
35. Neotsfield
36. Peshawur
37. Rebecca
38. Rfa industry (probably)
39. Silver dee
40. Silver quest 2
41. Speedbird
42. St. mungo (possibly)
43. Thornfield
44. Three sisters
45. Tornamona
46. Upas

 

Name: MAJA

Length 74.7 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1420 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-neva, ex-western star. built in 1883 by s p austin & sons, sunderland. owned at time of loss by redreri. akt. tertia, gothenburg. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 169 nhp, single shaft. passage glasgow for rocheforth. torpedoed by ub-126. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 88 meter

Known since: 1918, last detected: 1975

Details measurements/cartography: 17.10.18 M47646 17.10.18 POSN 541800N, 051300W OR 15M E OF ARDGLASS. (BOT). [NO DATE] FOUND BY SONAR CONTACT. (AUBD 318/20, ESCORT GROUP 30). H2112/75 3.2.75 H2112/75 3.2.75 WRECK LOCATED IN 541900N, 051442W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 78.8 IN GEN DEPTH 88MTRS. SEABED OF SOFT GREY MUD AND BROKEN SHELL. DCS3 HT 12MTRS. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 51/74). INS AS WK 76MTRS.

- NM 396/75.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 19 N,5 14.7 W

 

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