Wreck: Marie stuart (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Marie stuart, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 34.763 N,0 33.654 W (54.579383, -0.560900)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: MARIE STUART
Length 60 meter, width: 8 meter, tonnage 564 ton
Load: coal
Cause: 6.3.83 built of iron in 1864 by messers leslie & co, hebburn-on-tyne. owned at time of loss by gibson & somerville, leith. (m campbell gibson, leith, manager). one boiler, compound expansion engine of 120hp, single shaft. machinery by r & w hawthorn, newcastle-upon-tyne. sailed burntisland 6.3.83 for dunkirk and not seen again. george gibson gave vessel up as lost and published a crew list on 16.3.83. (rec'r of wk, annual report 2004 & r young).
Year of registration: 1989
Water depth above wreck: 52 meter, Height above seabed: 155 cm
Known since: 1998, last detected: 20161213
Details measurements/cartography: H6331/87 20.1.89 WK EXAM'D 25.6.88 IN 543445N, 003333W [OGB] USING TRISPNDER [3 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 49 IN GEN DEPTH 53MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 5.1MTRS, LENGTH 60MTRS, BEAM 8MTRS. LIES 150/330 DEG, WITH NW HALF OF WK INTACT WHILE SE HALF IS VERY BROKEN UP. CHART AS WK 48MTRS. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). BR STD. 23.3.04 HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS 'MARIE STUART' BY ENGINE MAKER'S PLATE. (REC'R OF WK, ANNUAL REPORT 2004). NCA. SEP 2017/000002822 3.5.17 EXAM'D 13.12.16; IN 5434.763N, 0033.654W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 47.39MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 52MTRS, LENGTH 61.1MTRS, WIDTH 8.2MTRS, HEIGHT 5.26MTRS, ORIENTATION 155/335 DEGS. WRECK APPEARS TO BE UPRIGHT AND INTACT, BUT IS SEVERELY DISINTEGRATED. (MMT, HI 1491). AMEND NDW 47MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 54 34.763 N,0 33.654 W
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