This is the information page about the shipwreck Whitford point, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 38 N,16 0 W (56.633333333333, -16)

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: WHITFORD POINT

Length 124.1 meter, width: 16.2 meter, draught: 7.9, tonnage 5026 ton
Load: metal: concentrate and products

Cause: built in 1928 by r duncan & co., with triple expansion engine of 545nhp. owned at time of loss by gowan shipping co. passage baltimore & halifax for london. torpedoed by german submarine u-47. 37 of 39 crew lost. (dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 430 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 H01001/40 [NO DATE] SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 563800N, 160000W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED) 16.1.78 16.1.78 SUNK APPROX 400M W OF THE HEBRIDES. (DODS). 4.8.87 4.8.87 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 563800N, 160000W. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). NCA, TOO DEEP TO CHART.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 56 38 N,16 0 W

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