This is the information page about the shipwreck Merrie islington, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 36.039 N,0 37.18 W (54.4542667, -0.3978333)

 

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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.

 

1. African transport (probably)
2. Afrique
3. Aigburth
4. Amulet
5. Anboto mendi (possibly)
6. Ard aidhm
7. Ardgantoch
8. Athelstane
9. Athos
10. Atlas (possibly)
11. Audax
12. Balfron (probably)
13. Battersea
14. Beaumanoir (probably)
15. Ben aden
16. Berwick (possibly)
17. Black prince (possibly)
18. Botha (possibly)
19. Brentwood
20. Cap palos (part of)
21. Castleford (probably)
22. Commercial
23. Constantia
24. Corsican prince
25. Countess of strathmore (possibly)
26. Creteblock
27. Crimdon (possibly)
28. Dayspring (probably)
29. Defiant
30. Disperser
31. Eaglescliffe (probably)
32. Earl percy
33. Ellida (probably)
34. Erich lea
35. Ferruccio
36. Florentia
37. Fred everard
38. Garthwaite
39. Gimle
40. Glengarry (probably)
41. Glow (part of) (possibly)
42. Glow (part of) (possibly)
43. Gothia
44. Gwalia (possibly)
45. Harrow (probably)
46. Hartley
47. Helene
48. Hercules
49. Highgate
50. Hms desire (possibly)
51. Hms dromio
52. Hms locheil
53. Hms lord ridley
54. Hms ruthin castle
55. Hms swallow
56. Hurstwood
57. Jane
58. John miles
59. Lady helen
60. Lampada (probably)
61. Lanthorn
62. Lerwick (probably)
63. London
64. Lowtyne (possibly)
65. Lucy
66. Madame renee
67. Marchioness of londonderry
68. Marie stuart
69. Martina
70. Melanie (probably)
71. Membland (possibly)
72. Merrie islington
73. Modemi (possibly)
74. Moorlands
75. Moorwood (possibly)
76. Namorado field jacket
77. Neptunus (possibly)
78. Novillo
79. Oakwell
80. Pandora
81. Paul
82. Phare (probably)
83. Philander (probably)
84. Polanna
85. Polruan
86. Quaggy (probably)
87. Rikard nordraak
88. Rutil
89. Saint ninian
90. Sarah thinnesen
91. Schaldis (possibly)
92. Sir francis
93. Skane
94. Sna ii
95. Southborough
96. Springhill
97. Stora-korsnas-link i
98. Sumus (probably)
99. Suntrap (probably)
100. Taurus (probably)
101. Ub 30
102. Uc 70
103. Victo (stern section)
104. Victoria (probably)
105. Voorwarts (possibly)
106. Wallsend
107. Wayside flower
108. Woodstock (bow section)
109. Woodstock (stern section)

 

Name: MERRIE ISLINGTON

Length 30.6 meter, width: 6.3 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 147 ton
Load: fish

Cause: Built by cook, welton & gemmel, hull. owned at time of loss by the humber s trawling co. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 45hp, single shaft. machinery by bailey & leetham. passage from hull for fishing and return. captured by submarine and sunk by scuttling charges.

Year of registration: 1915

Water depth above wreck: 51 meter, Height above seabed: 145 cm

Known since: 1915, last detected: 20161213

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 6 MILES NNE OF WHITBY, FISHING. (WW1SL). H5103/83 12.3.87 FASTENER IN 543602N, 003703W. POSN BY DECCA. (KINGFISHER OBSTN BOOKLET - WHITBY AREA). H6331/87 20.1.89 EXAM'D 24.6.88 IN 543602N, 003704W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 48.4 IN GEN DEPTH 51MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 3.9MTRS. LENGTH 30MTRS, BEAM 5MTRS. LIES 145/325 DEG, INTACT BUT TWISTED ABOUT 8 MTRS FROM SE E ND. A SMALL SEPARATE CONTACT, 1 MTR HIGH, WAS LOCATED 125MTRS NE OF WK. CHART AS WK 47MTRS. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). BR STD. HH351/100/09 9.6.95 BOW LAID ON STBD SIDE, MIDSHIPS UPRIGHT BUT COLLAPSED IN PLACES, STERN PORT SIDE DOWN. LARGE NETS SPIRALLED UPWARDS OFF PORT SIDE AT MIDSHIPS AND STERN. IDENTIFIED BY BELL. SINGLE BOILER, TWO FURNACES. COMPOUND ENGINE. (A C JACKSON & C A RACEY). NCA. SEP 2017/000002822 16.05.17 EXAM'D 13.12.16; IN 5436.039N, 0037.180W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 47.99MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 51MTRS, LENGTH 30MTRS, WIDTH 6.1MTRS, HEIGHT 3.75MTRS, ORIENTATION 145/325 DEGS. WRECK IS SEVERELY DISINTEGRATED. (MMT, HI 1491). AMEND NDW 47MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 36.039 N,0 37.18 W

 

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