Archaeology Notes

Event ID 760768

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HT85NW 8001 c. 81 55

N60 17 W2 20

NLO: Foula [name: HT 95 39].

Location of loss formerly entered as HT 8156 5544 [N60 17 W2 20].

Quality of fix = PA

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Circumstances of Loss Details

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The Danish motor vessel ALGIER was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U38. The crew were picked up from the lifeboat 15 miles NNW of Foula.

Source: Dictionary of Disasters at Sea.

Surveying Details

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A doubtful position from the wreck of 60 17 00N, 002 49 00W was given.

Source: World War II Shipping Losses

13 December 1977. The site was not found, but not positively disproved.

Report by HMS HERALD, 19 August 1977.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as motorship [motor ship]: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 20 March 1940). Algier: this vessel was torpedoed 15 miles NNW of Foula by U-38 at German position AN1283. (alternative position: 6017/0249).

Registration: Danish. 1654grt. Length: 6m. Beam: 12m.

(Location of loss cited as N60 17.0 W2 20.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record remains uinverified.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 September 2007.