Reference
Date 19 April 2012
Event ID 936552
Category Documentary Reference
Type Reference
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/936552
UKHO Identifier : 001261
Feature Class : Wreck
State : LIVE
Classification : Unclassified
Position (Lat/long) : 58.88181,-2.89811
Horizontal Datum : ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN (1936)
WGS84 Position (Lat/long) : 58.88139,-2.89973
WGS84 Origin : 3-D Cartesian Shift (BW)
Position Method : Air photography
Position Quality : Unreliable
Depth Quality : Depth unknown
Water Depth : 5
Vertical Datum : Lowest Astronomical Tide
Name : EMERALD WINGS
Type : BLOCKSHIP
Flag : BRITISH
Orientation : 80.0
Tonnage : 2139
Tonnage Type : Gross
Date Sunk : ??/07/1940
Contact Description : Notable debris
Original Sensor : Reported Sinking
Last Sensor : None reported
Original Detection Year : 1940
Last Detection Year : 1982
Original Source : Other
Last Source : Other
Circumstances of Loss : **STEEL SINGLE-SCREW SS, BUILT 1920, SUNK AS A BLOCKSHIP AT SW END OF SKERRY SOUND BARRIER. (WKS OF SCAPA FLOW, DIVE SCAPA FLOW).
Surveying Details : **H2496/72 14.3.72 POSN 585253N, 025354W, OR 213.5DEG, 2450FT FROM LAMB HOLM TRIG STN (61). PROTECTED BY GLIMPSHOLM SKERRY, SMALL BUT INTACT. MOST OF THE HULL DRIES BUT IS IN A WEAK STATE AND WILL SOON COLLAPSE. (UNDERMARINE OPERATIONS, 5.3.72). INS AS DWP. BR STD.
**H1270/76 2.3.76 ISOLATED MAST STANDING 19MTRS ABOVE MHWS IN 585254.5N, 025353.2W. THERE IS ALSO A LINE OF SCATTERED WRECKAGE ABOVE MLW EXTENDING 80MTRS N, 80MTRS W & 20MTRS S FROM MAST. (ORDNANCE SURVEY AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY 73/137 DTD 16.5.73 FOR PHOTOPLOT PG 1428-LP1).
**2.11.79 COVERED BY LEGEND BLOCKSHIPS ON NC 2162.
**3.7.80 NOT SHOWN ON NC 35 (AREA BLUED OUT).
**11.12.81 COVERED BY LEGEND 'WKS' ON NC 2250.
**27.5.82 REFERRED TO AS 'DREDGER LIKE VESSEL'. MAST ALWAYS SHOWS AND MOST OF DECK. (BSAC WK REGISTER, VOL V - ILSENSTEIN ENTRY). PRESUMABLY THIS WK, BUT POSSIBLY NOT EMERALD WINGS.
**27.8.92 NOW WELL DISPERSED WITH BOILER SHOWING AT LW. (DIVE SCAPA FLOW).
Charting Comments : POSN FOR FILING ONLY
Date Last Amended : 09/02/2005
