This is the information page about the shipwreck Protecor, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 27.41 N,2 41.658 W (56.3829, -2.4623833333333)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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: PROTECOR
Length 27.2 meter, width: 5.5 meter, draught: 2.9, tonnage 89 ton
Load: ballast
Cause: vessel, built 1887. owned at time of loss by f warren, north shields. one boiler, compound expansion engine, single shaft. on passage for dundee. foundered following collision with s tug 'duncan' near abertay ltv. (sibi).
Year of registration: 1937
Water depth above wreck: 10 meter
Known since: 1937, last detected: 2004
Details measurements/cartography: H800/37 5.5.37 WK 3FMS 2FT IN 562725N, 024134W. (DUNDEE HBR TRUST).
- NM 770/37. H03706/42 13.8.42 LEAST DEPTH OVER WK 3FMS 5FT. (DUNDEE HBR TRUST). BR STD. H4409/58 23.7.58 LEAST DEPTH OVER WK 4FMS 3FT [8MTRS]. (DUNDEE HBR TRUST NM 18/58).
- NM 1588/58. 21.1.04 EUT POSN: 5627.410N, 0241.658W. BA 1481 [MAR'03 EDN].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 56 27.41 N,2 41.658 W