This is the information page about the shipwreck Royal archer, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 6.445 N,3 0.171 W (56.019716666667, -3.1120833333333)

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: ROYAL ARCHER

Length 88.4 meter, width: 12.5 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 2266 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1928 by scott & co, greenock. three boilers, triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage london for leith. sturck mine laid by u-21. later dispersed. heavily salvaged in 1971. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 24 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: WRECK REPORTED MINED 048DEGS, 6.7M FROM INCHKEITH ISLAND. LATER, REPORTED 044.5DEGS, 6M FROM INCHKEITH LTHO OR, 560618N 030030W. WRECK TO BE DISPERSED. WRECK REPORTED IN 560600N, 025500W APPROX. (LLOYDS WAR LOSSES WWII, WWII B&FMSL). NCA. H255/40 1.3.40 WRECK IN 560626N, 025956W. (ADMIRALTY). - PNM 553/40. H255/40 30.5.40 DW IN 560626N, 025956W WITH G CONL LT BUOY, GPFL(2)G.W 10S CLOSE NW. (ADMIRALTY).

- NM 1342/40 & FNM 1343/40. H255/40 19.12.41 AMEND LT BUOY TO G CAN BUOY. (ADMIRALTY).

- NM 3020/41. H255/40 7.2.46 AMEND BUOY TO G CAN LT BUOY, GPFL(2)G.W 10S. (ADMIRALTY).

- NM 459/46. H255/40 11.8.50 AMEND TO WK 8FMS [14.6MTRS] IN 560626N, 025956W. (ADMIRALTY).

- NM 1578/50. H2618/60 29.7.60 LEAST E/S DEPTH OBTAINED 9FMS 2FT. NFS. (HMS SCOTT, REPORT 1959). NCA. 22.12.69 APPLICATION TO PURCHASE WK BY D NEWLANDS TO MIN. OF TRANSPORT. (WAR RISKS OFFICE). H454/67 30.6.71 SALVAGE OPS REPORTED WITH DIVERS DURING SUMMER 1971. (FORTH PORTS AUTHORITY).

- NM 1014T/71. H1310/82/32 13.10.82 WK REPORTED DIVED ON 26.9.82 JUST W OF CHARTED POSN. PARTS SEEN STAND 3-4MTRS HIGH IN GEN DEPTHS 27MTRS (2.5HRS AFTER HW). SCOUR DEPTH 2MTRS. (W MURNEY). H1310/83/34 6.1.84 LIES IN 560622N, 030005W USING DECCA. (E MURNEY, 29.12.83). NCA. HH264/410/01 21.8.95 WK 14.4MTRS SHOWN IN 560627N, 030005W ON KIRKCALDY SURVEY [M2069/1]. (HMS FOX, 1986-87). NE 734. 3.2.99 WK BROKEN IN LARGE SECTIONS THAT RISE 3-4MTRS. STERN IS MOST INTACT PART. (DIVER MAGAZINE FEB'99). 25.3.13 [WGD] POSN: 5606.445N, 0300.171W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 56 6.445 N,3 0.171 W

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