This is the information page about the shipwreck West shore, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 16.766 N,3 9.744 E (56.2794333, 3.1624)

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: WEST SHORE

Length 52.4 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 696 ton
Load: metal: concentrate and products

Cause: Sank in heavy weather. passage stavanger for drilling platform 'ocean viking'. (ll).

Year of registration: 1971

Water depth above wreck: 71 meter

Known since: 1971, last detected: 2017

Details measurements/cartography: H3149/69 15.1.71 SANK IN 561601N, 030909E APPROX. (CG ABERDEEN, 7.1.71). NCA. H3149/69 22.1.71 SANK 0.75M NE OF RIG OCEAN VIKING, WHICH PLOTS 561700N, 031000E. (LL). CHART AS NDW. BR STD. 30.6.75 NOW CHARTED AS WK USC 42MTRS. (TONNAGE KNOWN). NC 272. H3149/69 24.12.75 WK IN 561648N, 030948E [EUR]. (NORWEGIAN NM 1176/75). AMEND POSN. BR STD. H4040/75 9.4.76 REPORTED TO HAVE SUNK 0.75-1M NNE OF OCEAN VIKING LOCATION & SHOWN IN 561645.3N, 030942.7E [EUR] ON PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO DRWG SED 100. AMEND POSN. BR STD. SEP 2013/000016354 8.3.13 SHOWN AS WK USC 71MTRS IN 5617.086N, 0308.558E [WGD] ON NO2A0404 [EDN 2.0]. SEP 2016/000072600 12.4.16 SHOWN AS WK USC 42MTRS IN 5616.683N, 0309.676E [WGD].DENMARK 93[ED 8 CORR TO 26/02/16].AMEND TO WK USC 42MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UK NM 5454/17

Position: 56 16.766 N,3 9.744 E

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