This is the information page about the shipwreck Skerries, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 51.185 N,4 21.726 W (54.100166666667, -4.5481166666667)

 

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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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9. Empress eugenie
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11. G-azjy
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14. Hms racehorse
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16. Lady louisa
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22. Miriam thomas
23. Mtb 539
24. Opal (possibly)
25. Pacific (possibly)
26. Peveril
27. Pt1 or pt2
28. Saint mirren (possibly)
29. Seagull
30. Skerries
31. Sonia
32. Sy sol
33. Treveal
34. Vigsnes
35. William hanbury

 

Name: SKERRIES

Length 112.8 meter, width: 9.1 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 4278 ton
Load: ballast,water

Cause: built in 1906 by russell & co, port glasgow. owned at time of loss by clyde shipping co ltd, glasgow. four boilers, triple expansion engine of 410 nhp, single shaft. machinery by rankin & blackmore, greenock. passage barrow-in-furness for barry. sunk by mine laid by u-80. 2 men lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1916

Water depth above wreck: 53 meter, Height above seabed: 193 cm

Known since: 1916, last detected: 20220618

Details measurements/cartography: H0109/45 WK IN 535142N, 042300W. HEIGHT 54FT. GAVE OFF LIGHT OIL. (W APPS LIST, WAGO 524). POSN 535148N, 042300W - SONAR CONTACT W84. (C-IN-C W APPS, AUBD 319/213). H2921/85 1.4.86 OBSTN LOCATED IN 535108N, 042130W USING DECCA. BELIEVED OLD TELEPHONE CABLE, FOULED BY GEAR OF FV NEILSON ON 10.3.86. CABLE COULD NOT BE RAISED AND IS THOUGHT SNAGGED ON A WK. GEAR ABANDONED. (HOLYHEAD CG, TLX DTD 10.3.86). H5844/83 14.12.87 LOCATED 16.10.87 IN 535107N, 042141W [OGB] USING HIFHX/6 [3 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 43 IN GEN DEPTH 53MTRS. (HMS HECATE, HN 1.11.87).

- NM 29/88. HH100/351/05 6.2.92 THOUGHT POSSIBLY TO BE WK OF SS MANCHESTER. (A CORKILL, 2.2.92). HH100/351/11 13.2.96 DIVED IN 8.95 AND LOCATED IN THE CHARTED POSN. LEAST DEPTH CONFIRMED. A VERY LARGE, BROKEN UP WRECK WITH SUBSTANTIAL PARTS STILL STANDING. AFTER CONSULTATIONS WITH A CORKILL, THIS IS PROBABLY THE SKERRIES. APPEARS TO BE AT LEAST 300FT LONG AND HAS A BEAM OF 60FT. (K HURLEY). HH090/705/01 12.6.96 EXAM'D 29.3.96 IN 535111.1N, 042143.8W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 43.9 IN GEN DEPTH 53MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 9.4MTRS. LENGTH ABOUT 100MTRS, WIDTH 14MTRS. LIES 028/208DEGS. SIGNIFICANT MAGNETIC ANOMALY. HULL VERY BROKEN. (NP 1008, HI 705). BR STD. 21.10.96 FOUND TO BE FAIRLY WELL INTACT, UPRIGHT BUT THE SUPERSTRUCTURE HAS COLLAPSED. THE HOLDS ARE EMPTY APART FROM A SPARE PROPELLER. (J SHAW 10.10.96). NCA. 4.2.00 POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS SKERRIES FROM CROCKERY. (MR KERSHAW, TELECON 4.2.00). RSDRA2022000299553 18.01.23 EXAM’D 18.6.22 IN 5351.185N, 0421.726W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 40.83MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 53MTRS. LENGTH 112.82MTRS, WIDTH 21.35MTRS, HT 12.3MTRS. ORIENTATION 193/013 DEGS. (A-2-SEA SOLUTIONS LTD, HI 1706 H525_7390). INTACT AND UPRIGHT, SUPERSTRUCTURE COLLAPSED. AMEND NDW 40.83MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, SUPERSTRUCTURE COLLAPSED

Position: 53 51.185 N,4 21.726 W

 

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