This is the information page about the shipwreck Skovdal (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 37.631 N,1 35.99 W (55.802333333333, -1.8619333333333)

 

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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. Acclivity
2. Aepos
3. Alert (possibly)
4. Annie walker (probably)
5. Arbutus
6. Athelduke
7. Auckland castle
8. Aulton (possibly)
9. Baltanglia
10. Buka
11. Chris christenson
12. Coquet mouth
13. Cor jesu (possibly)
14. Coryton
15. Don (possibly)
16. Driebergen
17. Dutchman
18. Eglinton
19. Elziena
20. Elziena (possibly)
21. Emily reaich
22. Emma
23. Espire
24. Everene (possibly)
25. Ex-hmsm h 11
26. Fingal
27. Florence dombey (possibly)
28. George and mary (possibly)
29. Havilde
30. Hazard (probably)
31. Hesvik (possibly)
32. Hms ascot
33. Hms fortuna
34. Hms herring
35. Hms kopanes
36. Hms patia
37. Hooghammen
38. Hornchurch (probably)
39. Igor
40. Isbul & margarit
41. Jan van ryswyck
42. Lunesdale (possibly)
43. Maystone (possibly)
44. Merwede
45. Morlaix (probably)
46. Nidelven
47. Olimpia/?olympia (possibly)
48. Peik (probably)
49. Pluto
50. Provider a
51. Rising sun
52. Shadwan
53. Skovdal (probably)
54. Snowdonia
55. Somali
56. Spey (possibly)
57. Sphynx
58. St andre
59. St fergus
60. Tadorne
61. The tetrarch (probably)
62. Thistle
63. Thomas jackson (possibly)
64. Tillycorthie
65. Tioga
66. U 1274
67. Venus

 

Name: SKOVDAL (PROBABLY)

Length 50.3 meter, width: 7.9 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 607 ton
Load: salt

Cause: wooden hulled ss ex- sjoguuten [1891], ex- lars lea [1915], built in 1891 by r.o. haerem, stavanger, with 3 cylinder triple expansion engine, 1 boiler, single shaft. owned at time of loss by a/s skovdal, christiania. passage middlesbrough for skien. stranded on crumstone rock. (r. young)

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 6 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20200519

Details measurements/cartography: H2501/19 24.3.19 POSN 553800N, 013600W. (SNO GRANTON). H4214/26 1.7.26 AMENDED TO DW. H2583/30 12.6.30 DELETED. (HMS FITZROY 1929). HH090/843/01 21.12.99 EXAM'D 28.8.99 IN 5537.630N, 0135.990W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 2.6 IN GEN DEPTH 6MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 8MTRS, WIDTH 1.5MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.6MTRS. SEABED SAND. POSSIBLE DEBRIS. (GARDLINE, HI 843). INS AS WK 2.6MTRS. BR STD. 10.5.10 SITE IS THE SKELETAL REMAINS OF AN OLD SS, PROBABLY "SKOVDAL". WK LIES BROKEN UP ABOUT 25MTRS FROM CALLERS REEF WALL, ACROSS A 15MTR FLAT STONY BASIN. WRECKAGE VERY DECAYED & SCATTERED NO RIBS OR HULL REMAIN. ENGINE FRAME & BOILER ARE HIGHEST POINTS. ANCHOR & CHAIN, IRON PROP SHAFT, RUSTING FRAMES A 2 LARGE WINCHES LIE CLOSE BY ON THE SLOPING BANK. (R YOUNG, E-MAIL DTD 8.5.10) NCA. SEP 2021/000090526 1.4.21 EXAM'D 19.5.20 IN 5537.631N, 0135.990W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 2.58MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 6MTRS, LENGTH 15MTRS, WIDTH 13MTRS, HT 3.4MTRS. WK BROKEN UP WITH ONE BOILER. (MERITAITO, HI1591). AMEND DW 2.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: POSSIBLE DEBRIS

Position: 55 37.631 N,1 35.99 W

 

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