This is the information page about the shipwreck Pelican or anna bhan, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 37.103 N,6 3.02 W (56.612366666667, -6.03505)

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: PELICAN OR ANNA BHAN

Length 62.6 meter, width: 8.6 meter, draught: 4.8, tonnage 638 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built 1850 by e pike, cork with 2 cylinder compound engine of 140hp, 1 boiler single shaft. owned at time of loss by david macbrayne, glasgow. used as a coal hulk, engines removed. ran aground & lost when moorings dragged in force 10 gale. later slipped off the rocks into deep water. (sibi, argyll shipwrecks [photo], shipwrecks of w coast of scotland [photo], dive nw scotland)

Year of registration: 1982

Water depth above wreck: 23 meter, Height above seabed: 77 cm

Known since: 1982, last detected: 2011

Details measurements/cartography: 22.1.92 WK LIES IN 563703N, 060252W [OGB]. LYING ON ITS SIDE. HAS NETS OVER BOWS. (DIVE NW SCOTLAND). INS AS NDW PA. BR STD. 14.4.08 [EUT] POSN: 5637.038N, 0602.930W. NE 2474. 28.7.08 WK IS SOMETIMES INCORRECTLY REFERRED TO AS ANNA BHAN. DRAWING OF WK. (SHIPWRECKS OF W OF SCOTLAND PUBLISHED 1995) SITS UPRIGHT ON MUD & SILT SEABED IN 20-24MTRS. HULL INTACT WOODEN DECKING GONE. (ARGYLL SHIPWRECKS). 12.3.12 EXAM'D 30.10.11 IN 5637.103N, 0603.020W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 21.83 IN GEN DEPTH 23.1MTRS. SCOUR 0.5MTR DEEP AT UPSLOPE END. LENGTH 146MTRS, WIDTH 42MTRS, HT 12MTRS [SIC]. LIES 077/257 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. UPRIGHT, AT TOP OF STEEP INCLINE. INTACT. (NETSURVEY, HI 1364). AMEND WK 21.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, HULL INTACT, BOWS ?NE

Position: 56 37.103 N,6 3.02 W

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