Wreck: Skulda (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Skulda, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 0.593 N,3 26.991 W (56.00645, -3.4027833333333)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: SKULDA
Length 69.2 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 1177 ton
Load: general and mixed goods
Cause: passage grangemouth for stockholm. run down and sunk by the norwegian steamship 'tento', 4m e of forth bridge. (lloyds).
Year of registration: 1906
Water depth above wreck: 20 meter, Height above seabed: 135 cm
Known since: 1906, last detected: 20160225
Details measurements/cartography: SANK 4M E OF FORTH BRIDGE, IN 14FMS. (LLOYDS). NCA. POSN 560109N, 031612W [OGB] FOR FILING ONLY. 18.7.98 POSSIBLY UNKNOWN WK CHARTED IN 560114N, 031827W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). [SEE WK NO 2804]. 4.5.10 DATA RE-ASSESSED. COLLISION TOOK PLACE 600FT W OF BEAMER ROCK, WITH SKULDA SINKING 1.3M W OF BEAMER ROCK, IN 5600.567N, 0326.933W. STATED TO HAVE SUNK IN PRACTICALLY THE SAME POSN AS THE RUBY IN 1905 [SEE 2797]. (SHIPWRECKS OF FORTH & TAY, B BAIRD) SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 2M ABOVE THE FORTH BRIDGE, NEAR BEAMER ROCK. (SIBI) POSN FOR FILING AMENDED TO 5600.6N, 0327.0W. NCA. SEP2016000236167 25.02.16 EXAM'D 25.2.16; IN 5600.593N, 0326.991W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 18.44MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 20MTRS, LENGTH 56.32MTRS, WIDTH 14.65MTRS, HEIGHT 2.34MTRS, ORIENTATION 135/315 DEGS. WRECK LYING BROKEN UP ON THE SEABED NE OF WRECK 2797. (HMSML GLEANER, HI 1490 FIRTH OF FORTH). INS DW 18.4MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 56 0.593 N,3 26.991 W
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