This is the information page about the shipwreck Tosto, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 59 16.635 N,3 4.827 W (59.27725, -3.08045)

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: TOSTO

Length 73.2 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1234 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built 1904 by priestman & co, sunderland. owned at time of loss by b.stolt-nielsen, haugesund. triple expansion engine of 147nhp. passage methil for haugersund. mined. (dods, ww1sl, llww1, scandinavian ww1 losses, sibi). no lives lost. (k heath).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 49 meter, Height above seabed: 149 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2008

Details measurements/cartography: 22.2.80 22.2.80 NDW PA IN 591230N, 031100W. (US P/O DTD 16.10.76). NCA. 15.4.92 15.4.92 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS OFF KIRKWALL. 14M SSW OF NOUP HEAD. (WW1SL). QUOTED POSN PLOTS ASHORE ON MAINLAND, ORKNEY. COULD BE 14M SSE. POSN FOR FILING ONLY. HH100/351/14 18.2.99 HH100/351/14 18.2.99 DIVED 5.1998 IN 5916.61N, 0304.90W [OGB] USING GPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 52MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 55MTRS [REDUCE BY 3MTRS FOR APPROX LAT]. HEIGHT ABOVE BOTTOM 3MTRS. SEABED OF HARD ROCK AND SAND. WELL BROKEN, BOILER AND BOW STAND PROUD OF SEABED. BELL WITH INSCRIPTION: 'HEIMDAL, 1904, KRISTIANA' RECOVERED. COMMERCIAL GUARD REQUESTED. (K HEATH). INS AS WK USC 48MTRS. BR STD. HH091/218/01 25.2.08 HH091/218/01 & SEP 2008/000020244 25.2.08 EXAM'D 12.8.07 IN 5916.6352N, 0304.8268W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 45.0 IN GEN DEPTH 48.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 47MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS, HT 5.9MTRS. LIES 149/329 DEGS WITH BOWS SW. (NETSURVEY, HI 1218). WELL BROKEN UP. AMEND WK 45MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. HH091/218/01 17.7.08 HH091/218/01 & SEP 2008/000068445 17.7.08 LEAST M/B DEPTH 46.18 IN GEN DEPTH 49.5MTRS. (NETSURVEY, HI 1218, REVISED ROS). AMEND WK 46MTRS. BR STD. 31.3.09 31.3.09 CINC REMOVED. MORE THAN 5 YEARS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN, BOILER & BOW ARE HIGH POINTS

Position: 59 16.635 N,3 4.827 W

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