This is the information page about the shipwreck Swiftsure, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 59 0.813 N,2 46.055 W (59.013550, -2.767583)

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.

Name: SWIFTSURE

Length 60 meter, width: 9 meter, tonnage 823 ton
Load: timber

Cause: built in 1894 by sunderland shipbuilding co ltd, sunderland. owned at time of loss by j g hill steam shipping co ltd. one boiler, triple expansion engine, single shaft. machinery by ne marine engine co ltd, sunderland. passage arendal for sunderland. sunk by mine laid by uc-40, about 2m s of hacenes, entrance to shapinsay sound. one of 18 crew lost. (ww1sl, sibi, & off scotland).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 28 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2009

Details measurements/cartography: H0276/39 13.5.41 NSC IN 590100N, 024600W. (NOIC KIRKWALL). HH091/202/01 - SEP 2007/000068207 18.9.07 EXAM'D 8.1.07 IN 5900.813N, 0246.055W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 24.78 IN GEN DEPTH 28.5MTRS. LENGTH 12MTRS, WIDTH 5MTRS, HT 3.7MTRS. LIES 045/225DEGS. ?SMALL VESSEL, BROKEN WITH BOW EVIDENT. (NETSURVEY LTD, HI 1202). PROBABLY SEABED FEATURE. INS AS OBSTN 24.5MTRS.

- NM 4721/07. 10.6.09 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. IDENTIFIED AS SWIFTSURE. FLATTENED WRECK EXCEPT FOR ENGINE, PROPSHAFT, BOILER AND DONKEY BOILER WHICH SHOW, THE MAJORITY OF THE REST OF THE WK IS COVERED BY SAND. CINC REQUESTED. (K HEATH, TELECON 9.6.09).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ENGINE, PROPSHAFT, BOILER AND DONKEY BOILER SHOWING

Position: 59 0.813 N,2 46.055 W

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