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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 840010
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/840010
NB96SW 8001 9288 6414
N58 30.98 W 5 33.4
NLO: Point of Stoer [name: NC 022 356]
Kinlochbervie [name: NC 220 564].
See also NC07SW 8001.
Formerly entered as NB96SW 8463.
Quality of fix = EDM
Evidence = Echo sounder
Horizontal Datum = OGB
General water depth = 124
Orientation of keel/wreck = E/W
Surveying Details
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20 January 1964. The wreck of a 'World War II escort vessel' is reported by Lt Cdr I Ralph RNR to lie at 58 31 20N, 005 33 28W approximately. This position is derived from decca.
Report by HMS WOTTON, 22 November 1963.
9 August 1984. The site was examined on 27 April 1984 at 58 30 59N, 005 33 24W. The least echo sounder depth was 114 in a general depth of 124 metres. No scouring was observed. The side scan sonar indicated a height of 10.3 metres, and length of 45 metres (147 feet). The vessel is lying with its keel orientated 090/270 degrees. The mast is evident on the sonar trace.
Report by Land & Marine.
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
(Classified as Trawler, in ballast; former name cited as Kate Lewis, registration number as GN 17, and date of loss as 5 July 1944). Noreen Mary: this vessel was sunk by gunfire from U-247, 12 miles NxE of Rhue Stoer [Point of Stoer].
Registration: Granton. Built 1916. 207grt. Length: 36m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 30.0 W5 23.0).
Unknown: length 46m. [No further information].
(Location cited as N58 30.98 W5 33.40).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The equation of this wreck with the documented loss of the Noreen Mary is suggested, but remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 June 2008.
