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Unknown: North Channel
Obstruction (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Unknown: North Channel
Classification Obstruction (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Irish Sea; Unknown
Canmore ID 101687
Site Number NW76NE 8003
NGR NW 7809 6851
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/101687
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Maritime - Dumfries And Galloway
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NW76NE 8003 7809 6851
N54 54 W5 28
Formerly entered as NW76NE 8096.
Horizontal Datum = UND
Surveying Details
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The wreck's position is given as 54 54 00N, 005 28 00W. A letter was sent to St Davids Coastguard regarding the position.
16 November 1982. Two wreck are shown in Decca red f 21.57 purple d 55.40. The Navigation Aid conversion gives 54 53 56N, 005 28 02W. The second wreck = Decca red f 22.50 purple d 54.50, North Brit 3, which the gives 54 53 34N, 005 28 21W.
Source: Kingfisher trawling plots A-plot 18, 1982.
Hydrographic Office 1995.
Unknown: pre-1927. [No further information].
(Location cited as N54 54.00 W5 28.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The significance of this record remains unclear. It presumably refers to a net snag or echosounder contact.
No wreck is charted in this area, which lies in the middle of the North Channel to the W of Beaufort's Dyke. . The charted depth is about 200m; the seabed is apparently variable in type, but generally soft.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 December 2001.
UKHO chart no. 2198 (1978, revised 1987).
Evidence Of Loss (16 November 1982)
Horizontal Datum = UND
Surveying Details
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The wreck's position is given as 54 54 00N, 005 28 00W. A letter was sent to St Davids Coastguard regarding the position.
16 November 1982. Two wreck are shown in Decca red f 21.57 purple d 55.40. The Navigation Aid conversion gives 54 53 56N, 005 28 02W. The second wreck = Decca red f 22.50 purple d 54.50, North Brit 3, which the gives 54 53 34N, 005 28 21W.
Source: Kingfisher trawling plots A-plot 18, 1982.
Hydrographic Office 1995.
Unknown: pre-1927. [No further information].
(Location cited as N54 54.00 W5 28.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (3 December 2001)
The significance of this record remains unclear. It presumably refers to a net snag or echosounder contact.
No wreck is charted in this area, which lies in the middle of the North Channel to the W of Beaufort's Dyke. . The charted depth is about 200m; the seabed is apparently variable in type, but generally soft.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 December 2001.
UKHO chart no. 2198 (1978, revised 1987).
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 1691
Name : UNKNOWN
Latitude : 545400
Longitude : 52800
Position : Position Approximate
Comment : Pre 1927
