This is the information page about the shipwreck Setter (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 1.513 N,5 22.573 W (55.27305, -5.5877166666667)

 

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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.

 

1. Agba
2. Alamance (probably)
3. Ardglass
4. Argyle (possibly)
5. Austria
6. Azure
7. Baron glamis (probably)
8. Bonvilston
9. Boy john r
10. Buffalo (possibly)
11. Byron darnton
12. Carrick
13. Chindwin
14. Chirripo
15. Craigantlet
16. Davaar
17. Dettifoss
18. Dove of oban
19. Empire adventure
20. Empress of japan (possibly)
21. Ethel crawford
22. Haileybury
23. Harvest hope (possibly)
24. Hms adept (possibly)
25. Hmt rose ii
26. Karen
27. Lagan
28. Lairdscastle (probably)
29. Lakemoor
30. Longwy
31. Lupina
32. M.j.craig (probably)
33. Middleton (probably)
34. Nyanza (possibly)
35. Perelle (possibly)
36. Perilia
37. Princess victoria
38. Quesada (possibly)
39. Rowan
40. Sandhurst
41. Setter (possibly)
42. Solway queen (possibly)
43. St conan
44. Strathmore
45. Tiberia
46. U 776
47. Ub 82 (possibly)
48. Ub 85
49. Ub-85 / ub-82?
50. Vera louise
51. W d potts (probably)
52. William castle
53. Wilmere (probably)

 

Name: SETTER (POSSIBLY)

Length 68.6 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 956 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1906 by scott's shipbuilding & engineering co. ltd, greenock. owned at time of loss by g.& j. burns, glasgow. passage manchester for the clyde. torpedoed by ub-46 off scotland. 9 lives lost including the captain. (dods & wrecksite.eu)

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 109 meter, Height above seabed: 208 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20170211

Details measurements/cartography: [NO DATE] SUNK 6M NW BY N OF CORSEWALL POINT. (LLWW1). H3671/72 21.7.72 WK EXAM'D 4.7.72 IN 550130N, 052230W [OGB] USING HIFIX. LEAST E/S DEPTH 98MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 104MTRS. (HMS FOX, HI 51/72). INS AS WK 53FMS. BR STD. H3671/72 13.9.72 EXAM'D IN 550130N, 052230W [OGB] USING HIFIX/3 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 98 IN GEN DEPTHS 104 - 109MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH ABOUT 230FT. LIES 025/205 DEG ON THE SIDE OF A RIDGE. (HMS FOX, HI 51/72). POSSIBLY 'SETTER' BY LENGTH. NFA. H2265/73 16.3.73 AMENDED TO WK 98MTRS. NC 2199. H3671/72 7.12.76 INS BY NM ACTION.

- NM 73/77. H5982/82 15.11.82 TWO WKS SHOWN IN MEAN POSN 550131N, 052244W [OGB]. POSN FROM DECCA. (KINGFISHER TRAWLING PLOTS, A-PLOT 11, 1982). HH278/400/02 7.6.99 WK LOCATED WITH NE END IN 5501.542N, 0522.555W [WGD], SW END IN 5501.507N, 0522.577W [WGD] USING DGPS. APPROX DEPTH 91MTRS. (HMS SANDOWN, FEB 1999). GIVES CALCULATED LENGTH 69MTRS, LYING 019/199 DEGS. RETAIN AS WK 98MTRS IN REVISED POSN. SEP 2017/000036782 27.6.17 EXAM'D 11.2.17 IN 5501.513N, 0522.573W [WGD]. LEAST WCD DEPTH 90.02MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 109MTRS, LENGTH 88MTRS, WIDTH 14.9MTRS, HEIGHT 11.7MTRS, ORIENTATION 208/28 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS DEPTH 4MTRS. LARGE WRECK, LIST TO PORT. MOSTLY INTACT EXCEPT FOR WHERE THE STERN SECTION HAS COLLAPSED. (MMT, HI1509). AMEND NDW 90MTRS IN REVISED POSITION.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 55 1.513 N,5 22.573 W

 

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