This is the information page about the shipwreck Pionersk, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 60 7.202 N,1 10.649 W (60.342516666667, -1.0269666666667)

 

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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. Anglo dane
2. Anzac
3. Borodinskoye polye
4. Braer
5. Dana
6. Day dawn
7. Fitful head
8. Flynderborg (possibly)
9. Fraoch ban
10. Girdleness
11. Gk 41/gr 41
12. Glenisla
13. Goodwill merchant
14. Green lily
15. Gwladmena
16. Havaldan
17. Hms asia
18. Hms cheerful
19. Leonatus
20. Lunohods-1
21. Miss lucy 11
22. Murrayfield (possibly)
23. Ocean maid
24. Pionersk
25. Quiet waters
26. Quo vadis
27. River lossie
28. Samba
29. Sea mist
30. Slavonic (probably)
31. Uc 55 (possibly)
32. Valkyrie
33. Verdant

 

Name: PIONERSK

Length 164.9 meter, width: 21.3 meter, draught: 7.9, tonnage 10035 ton

Cause: 1.11.94 ran aground stern first in strong winds. 156 crew rescued. (ll, 1.11.94). built 1963 by stocznia gdanska im. lenina, with 5 cylinder oil engine, machinery by a/s burmeister & wain's maskin-og, copenhagen. owned at time of loss by ussr 'zapryba'. broke from her mooring in heavy weather, drove ashore on ness of trebister, broke in two. all crew of 137 safe. (sibi, shipwrecks of the n of scotland [photo of grounding], & off scotland).

Year of registration: 1994

Water depth above wreck: 2 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1994, last detected: 2000

Details measurements/cartography: HH270/400/06 5.11.94 HH270/400/06 5.11.94 VESSEL AGROUND IN 600712N, 011024W [OGB]. (MRSC SHETLAND TELEX DTD 31.10.94 & LL). HH270/400/06 8.11.94 HH270/400/06 8.11.94 VESSEL REPORTED IN 600714N, 011032W [OGB]. (TELECON HANNAFORD/LERWICK HBR MSTR. REPORT FROM MV 'FORTH EXPLORER' DTD 8.11.94).

- NM 3998/94. HH270/400/06 13.2.95 HH270/400/06 13.2.95 VESSEL REPORTED AS 'BROKE UP ON 18.1.95, LEAVING NO VISIBLE SIGNS ON THE SURFACE.' (FISHING NEWS, 2.95) TELECON MRSC SHETLAND/W.O. CONFIRMED THAT SMALL PIECES ARE STILL VISIBLE. NCA. HH270/400/06 13.2.96 HH270/400/06 13.2.96 WK NOW TOTALLY SUBMERGED IN 600714N, 011032W [OGB]. (LERWICH HARBOUR TRUST, LETTER DTD 16.11.95).

- NM 883/96. 3.3.00 3.3.00 WK IS MOSTLY BROKEN UP, WITH INTACT SECTIONS OF HOLD. TIP OF THE BOWS BREAKS THE SURFACE. (DIVER MAGAZINE MAR '00). 18.2.04 18.2.04 EUT POSN: 6007.202N, 0110.649W. NE 3271. 18.3.09 18.3.09 BOW IN LESS THAN 10MTRS, STERN IN 22MTRS. LYING E/W, BOWS E. DERRICKS & MAIN MAST LIE ACROSS WK. STERN MOST INTACT PART OF WK. (SHIPWRECKS OF N OF SCOTLAND, BAIRD)
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 60 7.202 N,1 10.649 W

 

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