Wreck: Stormlight (Motor vessel)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Stormlight, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 50.012 N,5 56.212 W (55.882816666667, -6.1208666666667)
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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: STORMLIGHT
Length 26.8 meter, width: 6.4 meter, draught: 2.7, tonnage 158 ton
Load: ballast
Cause: reported to be trapped between reef & rocks at entrance to craighouse, jura, en-route campbeltown to oban.
Year of registration: 1973
Water depth above wreck: 2 meter, Height above seabed: 155 cm
Known since: 1973, last detected: 2013
Details measurements/cartography: 17.12.73 17.12.73 REPORTED TO BE TRAPPED BETWEEN REEF & ROCKS AT ENTRANCE TO CRAIGHOUSE, JURA. (LL 214). H2894/72 20.5.74 H2894/72 20.5.74 BOW APPROX 135DEG 120FT FROM LIGHT, IN 555001N, 055609W. LYING ON PORT SIDE, HEADING 155DEG. MAST DRIES 4.3MTRS, OR 11FT HIGH. (HMS BULLDOG, HN 1/74). INS AS ST.
- NM 1065/74. H2958/69 6.11.74 H2958/69 6.11.74 INS AS ST (MAST DRIES 4.3MTRS). NC 2168. H2894/72 13.3.79 H2894/72 13.3.79 FOLLOWING REPORT THAT WK HAD SLIPPED OFF ROCKS INTO DEEPER WATER, INSPECTED BY N LIGHTS. WK HAS BROKEN IN TWO ABOUT 30FT FROM STERN. FOR'D END LYING ON ITS SIDE, STERN PORTION LYING IN A GULLEY & NO DANGER. STILL IN 555001N, 055609W [OGB]. (NORTHERN LTHO BOARD, TELECON 27.2.79). NCA. [WGD] POSN: 5550.012N, 0556.212W. 26.4.13 26.4.13 NOT LOCATED IN 2012. TOO SHALLOW TO ACCESS. (NETSURVEY, HI 1371). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: IN TWO PARTS
Position: 55 50.012 N,5 56.212 W
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