Evidence Of Loss

Date 1995

Event ID 559061

Category Recording

Type Evidence Of Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/559061

Quality of fix = E

Evidence = Divers Report

Horizontal Datum = OGB

General water depth = 11

Surveying Details

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6 November 1978. A position of 58 11 15N, 006 20 59W is given for this wreck of a motor vessel. There are substantial pieces of wreckage on the seabed, just SW of westernmost rocks of the Beasts of Holm and on which the beacon stands. The wreck lies in a general depth of 11 metres with a maximum height of 3 metres, and within 5 metres of the vertical rocky outcrops. The site consists of a damaged boiler, steel propellors, lead cladding, and superstructure frame 7 x 4 x 1 metres high. There are broken items of engine room fittings.

Report by RAF Coningsby Sub Aqua Club 1978.

23 August 1979. The wreck was relocated. The site is not part of the IOLAIRE [see 58 11 19N, 006 20 56W]. It is small and probably a motor fishing vessel.

Report by RAF Coningsby Sub Aqua Club,1979.

1 February 1988. The site was dived on in July 1987. It is agreed that the wreck is not part of the IOLAIRE. A least depth of 22 metres was recorded over this wk.

Report by R. Banks, RAF Abingdon, 18 December 1987.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as M[otor] F[ishing] V[essel]?: no date of loss cited). Unknown: [no further information],

(Location of loss cited as N58 11.25 W6 20.98).

I G Whittaker 1998.