Archaeology Notes

Event ID 760599

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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N58 12.8667 W5 43.8833

NLO: Tiumpan Head (Rubha an t-Siumpain) [name: NB 573 377]

Point of Stoer [name: NC 022 356]

Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750].

Formerly entered as Site no. 8453, and also as NB83SW 8005 at cited location NB 806 310 [N58 12.83 W5 44.05].

Quality of fix = EDM

Evidence = Echo sounder

Horizontal Datum = OGB

General water depth = 103

Orientation of keel/wreck = NW/SE

Surveying Details

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12 January 1970. The wreck was found while sonar sweeping the area and was fixed by using decca (scottish chain 6c/mp). The least depth by echosounder was 93 metres in 102 metres.

Report by HMS FOX, 7 November 1969.

7 December 1976. A 2 funnel passenger ship was located, with a height of 15.8 metres above the seabed, at decca posn (d6) red e 20.45 green a 32.70 purple f 70.83. This converts to 58 12 50.0N, 005 43 50.0W.

Report by Risdon Beazley, 27 October 1976. The site was surveyed in 1956-57.

8 August 1984. The site was examined on 4 October 1983 at 58 12 52N, 005 43 53W using trisponder to fix the position, side scan sonar & echosounder. The least echsounder depth was 88 metres in a general depth of 103 metres. A scour 0.5 metres deep was observed. The side scan sonar indicated a height of 14 metres and length of 118 metres (387 feet). The wreck is lying with its keel orientated 145/315 degrees.

Report by Land and Marine.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as Passenger Vessel: no date of loss specified. Unknown: has two funnels. Length: 119m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 12.83 W5 44.05).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location cited falls about 21km WSW of Point of Stoer.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 September 2008.