This is the information page about the shipwreck Saint magnus, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 57 32.275 N,1 43.694 W (57.4531, -1.7967)
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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: SAINT MAGNUS
Length 65.5 meter, width: 9.4 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 809 ton
Load: personnel,general and mixed goods
Cause: built in 1912 by ramage & ferguson ltd, leith. owned at time of loss by n of scotland, orkney & shetland ss co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 206hp, single shaft. passage methil for new york. general cargo & mail. torpedoed by uc-58. 5 men lost. (sibi). passage lerwick for aberdeen. (dti & ww1sl).
Year of registration: 1923
Water depth above wreck: 49 meter, Height above seabed: 135 cm
Known since: 1923, last detected: 2009
Details measurements/cartography: HH6072/23 3.9.23 DWPA IN 573340, 014310W. (SG STN RATTRAY HD). INS AS DW PA (1923). BR STD. 7.2.57 AMEND TO DWPA. NC 1409. H6072/23 5.5.59 AMEND TO NDW PA. NE 1409. 10.6.74 AMEND TO USCPA 20MTRS. NC 213. 5.4.77 AMEND TO USCPA 30MTRS. NC 213. HH091/155/01 19.1.09 SEP 2010/000027978 EXAM'D 15.6.09 IN 5732.275N, 0143.694W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 42.74 IN GEN DEPTH 49.2MTRS. SCOUR 0.6MTR DEEP AT WK. LENGTH 69MTRS, WIDTH 22MTRS, HT 6.5MTRS. LIES 135/315 DEGS WITH BOWS SE. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT. (GARDLINE HYDRO, HI 1155). PROBABLY UPRIGHT. WK USCPA 30MTRS NOT SHOWN ON BA 213. INS AS WK 42MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, BOWS SE
Position: 57 32.275 N,1 43.694 W