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Reference
Date 19 April 2012
Event ID 936544
Category Documentary Reference
Type Reference
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/936544
UKHO Identifier : 001253
Feature Class : Wreck
State : LIVE
Classification : Unclassified
Position (Lat/long) : 58.84258,-2.90056
Horizontal Datum : ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN (1936)
WGS84 Position (Lat/long) : 58.84217,-2.90216
WGS84 Origin : 3-D Cartesian Shift (BW)
Position Quality : Unreliable
Depth Quality : Depth unknown
Water Depth : 1
Vertical Datum : Lowest Astronomical Tide
Name : CARRON
Type : BLOCKSHIP
Flag : BRITISH
Orientation : 0.0
Tonnage : 1017
Tonnage Type : Gross
Date Sunk : 03/03/1940
Contact Description : Entire wreck
Original Sensor : Reported Sinking
Last Sensor : None reported
Original Detection Year : 1940
Last Detection Year : 1992
Original Source : Other
Last Source : Other
Circumstances of Loss : **SINGLE-SCREW STEEL SS, BUILT 1894, SUNK AS A BLOCKSHIP. (WKS OF SCAPA FLOW).
Surveying Details : **H2496/72 14.3.72 POSN 585035.5N, 025400W, OR 191DEGS, 1150FT FROM SPOT HT 170 ON BURRAY. LIES N/S. HULL VIRTUALLY INTACT WITH SUPERSTRUCTURE FROM BOWS TO 20FT OF STERN. ENTIRE SHIP SUNK INTO SAND AND ONLY 5FT OF BOWS AND HULL TO 8FT MIDSHIPS AND 2FT AFT VISIBLE. BOWS NEVER COVERED BY SEA. EARLY SALVAGE BY MESSRS MATCHES HAS PUT A LARGE CRATER OVER ENGINE ROOM AREA. (UNDERMARINE OPERATIONS, 5.3.72). INS AS DWP. BR STD.
**H1270/76 5.3.76 LARGE HULK WITH LITTLE SUPERSTRUCTURE REMAINING IN 585033.3N, 025402.0W. THE POSN GIVEN IS THAT OF THE BASE OF THE STERN MAST WHICH IS THE ONLY ONE REMAINING & APPEARS TO HAVE COLLAPSED TO AN ODD ANGLE FROM THE VERTICAL. WRECK IS ABOUT 70MTRS LONG & IS LYING N/S, BOWS N. WRECK CALLED CARRON ON SURVEY [E5835/5]. (ORDNANCE SURVEY AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY 73/137 DTD 16.5.73 FOR PHOTOPLOT PG 1428-LP1).
**3.7.80 NOT SHOWN ON NC 35 (AREA BLUED OUT).
**28.8.92 SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT, BUT NOW MAINLY BURIED IN SAND AT NE END OF BARRIER. ONLY A SMALL SECTION OF SUPERSTRUCTURE IS EXPOSED & DRY AT LW.GENERAL SHAPE CAN BE MADE OUT FROM RIBS, WHICH RUN OUT TO SEA & INTO SAND. STERN MAST COLLAPSED ACROSS HULL. (WKS OF SCAPA FLOW & DIVE SCAPA FLOW).
Charting Comments : POSN FOR FILING ONLY
Date Last Amended : 09/02/2005
