Archaeology Notes
Event ID 875295
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NK16NW 8006 125 664
N57 41.2 W1 475.5
NLO: Rattray Head [name: NK 110 578].
Formerly entered as NK16NW 8365 at cited location NK 1092 6964 [N57 43 W1 49], and as Unlocated.
Quality of fix = PA
Horizontal Datum = UND
Circumstances of Loss Details
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The ANVERS was bombed by aircraft.
Source: World War II Shipping Loses.
Surveying Details
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The site's position is given as 57 43 00N, 001 49 00W.
15 September 1972. The wreck may be in 57 39 45N, 001 43 00W - 4 to 5 miles bearing 045 degrees Rattray Head. The vessel was owned at time of loss by CIE Royale Belgo-Argentine.
Hydrographic Office 1995.
(Classified as steel steamship, with cargo of scrap steel: former names cited as Ekkehard and Elsa Menzell, and date of loss as 13 November 1940). Anvers: this vessel was bombed by aircraft.
[Location] also cited as 4-5 miles 45 degs Rattray Head: ie. N57 40 W01 43.
Registration: Antwerp. Built 1908. 4398grt. Length: 115m. Beam: 16m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 43.00 W1 49.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unconfirmed location that is cited by both UKHO and Whittaker. This location lies in about 28m depth of water, and within an area where there several other wrecks are charted [PA]. The seabed evidently slopes towards the NE: no seabed type is indicated nearby.
The cause of loss (torpedo or bomb) cited by Whittaker differs between his two entries.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 March 2011.
In the apparent absence of diver survey, remote sensing or specific evidence, the identity of this wreck remains unverified. It is presumably to be equated with that charted [Wk] on UKHO chart no. 115 (1978, revised 1993) at depth 37m, 4.8nm N of Rattray Head. This lies in a general depth of about 48m; a seabed of mixed rock, sand and shell is noted a short distance to the SSW.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 May 2011.
