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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 868873
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/868873
NX03SW 8002 0221 3361
N54 39 W5 4
NLO: Crammag Head [name: NX 088 339]
Mull of Galloway [name: NX 157 302].
Formerly entered as NX03SW 8106 at cited location NX 0221 3361 [N54 39 W5 4].
Quality of fix = PA
Horizontal Datum = UND
Circumstances of Loss Details
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RIO VERDE was torpedoed by submarine.
Source; World War I Shipping Loses.
Surveying Details
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26 February 1918. The vessel's position is given as 4 miles to the W of Grammag Head (Mull of Cantyre). It was not seen to sink on the 25 February 1918.
The vessel's position is given as 4 mins W of Grummag [Crammag] Head. It was torpedoed and probably sank 10 minutes later.
25 February 1918. Report by Commadore Larne. The vessel was torpedoed about 5 minutes (magnetic) W of the Mull of Gallaway [Galloway] and sank 3.75 hours later.
22 February 1918. The vessel was about 5 mins W from the Mull of Galloway.
Report by wireless/telephone operator, I.D.S.A.
5 March 1973. The vessel was not found during survey.
Report by HMS FAWN 1 December 1972.
Hydrographic Office 1995.
(Classified as steel steamship, with cargo of coal: former name cited as Austriana, and date of loss as 21 February 1918). Rio Verde: this vessel was torpedoed off [the] Mull of Galloway or four miles West of Crammag Head.
Registration: London. Built 1901. 4025grt. Length: 103m. Beam: 14m.
(Location of loss cited as N54 39.0 W5 4.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 August 2005.
