This is the information page about the shipwreck Manina, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 59 1.401 N,4 30.434 W (58.805166666667, -4.3572)

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: MANINA

Length 80.5 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1333 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1947 by eriksberg mek verkstads a/b, gothenburg. owned at time of loss by kanav shipping co. passage bergen for glasgow. grounded on stack skerry, 30m off orkney, and later sank nearby in deep water. 9 of crew of 14 lost. (msd).

Year of registration: 1968

Water depth above wreck: 44 meter

Known since: 1968, last detected: 1999

Details measurements/cartography: H7838/53 22.4.68 POSN 590130N, 043030W APPROX. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NCA. H2884/83 11.5.84 SONAR CONTACT OBTAINED 19.8.83 IN 590125N, 043018W [OGB]. THOUGHT POSSIBLY TO BE A WK. LIES CLOSE UNDER SE SIDE OF STACK SKERRY. NOT FURTHER EXAMINED. (RACAL SURVEY, HI 160). NCA. 28.7.99 WK IS TIGHT TO STACK SKERRY. REMAINS OF BRIDGE, MIDSHIPS AND SOME ENGINE ROOM PARTS TO 26MTRS. HUGE MAST LEADS TO BOW AT 43MTRS. STERN WITH STAINLESS STEEL PROP AT 43MTRS. (DIVER MAGAZINE, AUGUST 1999). NCA. HH100/351/15 4.2.00 LIES IN 5901.429N, 0430.350W [OGB]. POSN BY GPS. WELL BROKEN UP. BOW AND INVERTED STERN ABOUT 40MTRS APART IN GEN DEPTH 44MTRS. WRECKAGE RUNS UP THE SLOPE TO 12MTRS. SEABED ROCK LEADING DOWN TO SAND AT 42MTRS. (K J HEATH). INS AS NDW. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP, BOW & INVERTED STERN ARE MAIN PARTS

Position: 59 1.401 N,4 30.434 W

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