Archaeology Notes

Event ID 759470

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR53SE 8001 5654 3028

N55 30.3 W5 51.35

NLO: Machrihanish [name: NR 638 207].

Formerly entered as NR53SE 1 and NR53SE 9304.

Quality of fix = HF6

Evidence = Echo sounder

Horizontal Datum = OGB

General water depth = 64

Orientation of keel/wreck = 045/225

Circumstances of Loss Details

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The U482 submarine was depth charged and sunk by HM ships PEACOCK, HART, STARLING and AMESTHYST.

Surveying Details

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6 June 1969. The vessel was sunk approximately 6 miles NW of Machrihanish or 55 30 00N, 005 53 00W.

Source; German Submarines Vol 1 and 2.

7 August 1985. The site was examined on 29 May 1985 at 55 30 18N, 005 51 21W or decca (n.brit) red g 11.60, purple h 57.18. The least echosounder depth was 56.3 in a general depth of 64 metres. A scour to the depth of 1 metre was observed. The side scan sonar indicated a height of 6.4 metres and length of 70 metres (230 feet). The vessel is lying on an orientation of 045/225 degrees.

Report by HMS BULLDOG.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as submarine: date of loss cited as 16 January 1945). U-482: this vessel was depth-charged 6 miles NW of Machrihanish. 48 dead.

Registration: German. 871 tons displacement. Length: 66m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 30.00 W5 53.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.