This is the information page about the shipwreck Queensbury (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 47.136 N,2 11.803 W (56.633333333333, -16)

 

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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.

 

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7. Confield
8. Cushendall (part of)(possibly)
9. Daydawn
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11. Empire miniver
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22. Hms broadwater
23. Hms nordhav ii (part of)(possibly)
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25. Hms repro (probably)
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32. Lowdock
33. Luffness
34. Maggie smith (possibly)
35. Margaret rae
36. Matador
37. Nora
38. Port gisborne
39. Queensbury (possibly)
40. Rowanbank
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54. Wandby
55. Whitford point

 

Name: QUEENSBURY (POSSIBLY)

Length 113.5 meter, width: 15.9 meter, draught: 7.4, tonnage 3911 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,grain

Cause: built in 1931 by burntisland shipbuilding co, burntisland. owned at time of loss by houlder line ltd. three boilers, triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage buenos aires for london. bombed and set on fire by german aircraft and later capsized. considered a navigational hazard and sunk by hm trawler sturton. 11 men lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1967

Water depth above wreck: 55 meter, Height above seabed: 15 cm

Known since: 1967, last detected: 2008

Details measurements/cartography: H1192/67 17.4.67 H1192/67 17.4.67 LOCATED IN 564710N, 021145W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 66FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 140FT. LEAST DEPTH OVER WK BY SONAR 132FT. GEN DEPTH 173FT. SCOUR 175FT. A CLEARANCE SWEEP AT 11FMS HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT OVER THIS WK. THIS WK WAS FOUND BY HMS BLACKWOOD. (HMS EGERIA, ROS DTD 27.6.66). INS AS WK 23FMS. BR STD. 6.11.72 6.11.72 AMEND TO USCPA 11FMS. NE 1407. 8.3.73 8.3.73 AMEND TO SW 20MTRS. NC 210. 11.11.75 11.11.75 AMEND TO SW 19.8MTRS [LAT]. NC 210. 15.10.03 15.10.03 RECORD REVIEWED. AMEND TO WK 40MTRS. (HMS EGERIA, SONAR DEPTH 1967). BR STD. HH091/152/01 18.6.08 HH091/152/01 & SEP 2008/000075801 18.6.08 EXAM'D 11.4.08 IN 5647.136N, 0211.803W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 41.8 IN GEN DEPTH 55MTRS. SCOUR 2.5MTRS DEEP IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY, MOST PRONOUNCED AT THE BOW. LENGTH 106MTRS, WIDTH 16MTRS, HT 13.2MTRS. LIES 015/195 DEGS WITH BOWS NNE. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. BOW APPEARS COLLAPSED AND BROKEN FROM WK. (GARDLINE HYDRO, HI 1152). AMEND 41MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: DEGRADED, BOWS NNE, SCOUR MAINLY AROUND BOW

Position: 56 47.136 N,2 11.803 W

 

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