This is the information page about the shipwreck Samba, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 60 7.678 N,1 9.369 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.

 

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29. Valkyrie
30. Verdant

 

Name: SAMBA

Length 46.3 meter, width: 8.1 meter, tonnage 663 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: 28.12.56 ex-hms olive, minesweeping trawler, built in 1940 by hall russell, aberdeen. sold out of service in 1948 to a swedish company, renamed 'samba' and coverted to carrying fuel oil. passage rotterdam for odda. reported leaking & without power in bad weather. drifted for two days while various attempts to tow her failed. abandoned, crew rescued & eventually grounded on rocks at ruggen, ness of sound on 28.12.56. no sign of vessel on following day. presumed to have broken up & sunk in deep water. (sibi & shipwrecks of n scotland, baird [photo]).

Year of registration: 1956

Water depth above wreck: 20 meter

Known since: 1956, last detected: 2007

Details measurements/cartography: H492/57 8.8.57 H492/57 8.8.57 SANK IN 600740N, 010910W APPROX. (LL). NCA. 8.10.07 8.10.07 GROUNDED ON THE ROCKS AT RUGGEN, NESS OF SOUND. POSN GIVEN AS 6007.678N, 0109.369W [WGD] USING GPS. ANCHOR CHAIN VISIBLE ON THE ROCKS, WHICH CAN BE FOLLOWED DOWN A ROCKY SLOPE TO LARGE SECTIONS OF WRECK IN 20MTRS. FURTHER DOWN SLOPE IN GEN DEPTH 35MTRS IS THE LARGELY INTACT FOREPEAK ON ITS PORT SIDE WITH A LARGE TANK BEYOND IT. PHOTO OF VESSEL. (SHIPWRECKS OF THE N OF SCOTLAND, BAIRD, PUBLISHED 2003) 9.10.07 SEP 2007/000074162 9.10.07 KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN DIVED RECENTLY IN LISTED POSN, STANDS 5MTRS OFF SEABED, WELL BROKEN UP. (K HEATH, TELECON 8 & 9.10.07) INS AS WK 15MTRS.

- NM 5113/07.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP

Position: 60 7.678 N,1 9.369 W

 

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