Reference

Date 19 April 2012

Event ID 938983

Category Documentary Reference

Type Reference

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/938983

Project Adair - UKHO data upload

UKHO Identifier : 004522

Feature Class : Wreck

State : DEAD

Classification : Unclassified

Position (Lat/long) : 55.09333,-1.48333

Horizontal Datum : ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN (1936)

WGS84 Position (Lat/long) : 55.09341,-1.48494

WGS84 Origin : 3-D Cartesian Shift (BW)

Position Quality : Unreliable

Depth Quality : Depth unknown

Water Depth : 0

Vertical Datum : Lowest Astronomical Tide

Name : MARAL R

Type : MV

Flag : BRITISH

Length : 45.4

Beam : 8.2

Draught : 3.0

Tonnage : 430

Tonnage Type : Gross

Date Sunk : 26/08/1987

Contact Description : Entire wreck

Original Sensor : Reported Sinking

Original Detection Year : 1987

Original Source : Other

Circumstances of Loss : FUEL PIPE FRACTURED CAUSING A MAJOR FIRE IN ENGINE ROOM. WAS ABANDONED BY CREW AND LATER

DRIFTED ASHORE NEAR SEATON SLUICE.

Surveying Details : **H6520/82 2.10.87 GROUNDED IN APPROX POSN 550530N, 012900W OGB]. AFTER SECTION STILL BURNING. (MRSC TYNE TEES, TLX DTD 2.8.87).

**9.9.87 SOLD FOR SCRAP "AS LIES" TO C & S MARINE, WALKER, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE. (LL 8.9.87). NCA.

**HH090/796/01 7.1.99 NOT LOCATED, DISPROVED. (GARDLINE, HI 796). AMENDED TO DEAD. NCA.

Charting Comments : POSN FOR FILING ONLY

Date Last Amended : 07/01/1999