This is the information page about the shipwreck Pecten, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 21.989 N,7 55.047 W (56.4998, -7.66165)

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: PECTEN

Length 134.1 meter, width: 18 meter, draught: 10.1, tonnage 7468 ton
Load: flammable liquids and gases,oil

Cause: vessel, built 1927, was torpedoed & sunk by german submarine u 57 about 15m w of skerryvore. owned at time of loss by anglo-saxon petroluem co., she was en-route trinidad to clyde.

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 190 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1977

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 6.2.40 SINKING POSN 562200N, 075500W APPROX. (ADMIRALTY). POSN CONFIRMED BY WW2SL, DODS, LL WW2, AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES. H1768/67 6.9.67 CHARTED AS NDW PA. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NC 2722. H2164/72 24.4.72 SEARCHED FOR WITH SONAR, BUT NOT LOCATED. (HMS HECATE, ROS DTD 20.12.71). 2.1.76 NOW CHARTED AS USC 61FMS [TONNAGE KNOWN]. NE 2365. H1270/72 14.4.77 REASSESSED. NOW CHARTED AS USC PA 87FMS (160MTRS). BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 56 21.989 N,7 55.047 W

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