Unknown: Float Bay, Rhinns Of Galloway, North Channel
Craft
Site Name Unknown: Float Bay, Rhinns Of Galloway, North Channel
Classification Craft
Alternative Name(s) Irish Sea; Unknown
Canmore ID 101692
Site Number NX04NE 8004
NGR NX 05956 47069
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/101692
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Maritime - Dumfries And Galloway
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NX04NE 8004 0595 4706
N54 46.85 W5 1.0667
NLO: Float Bay [name: NX 060 470]
Portpatrick [name: NW 998 540].
Formerly entered as NX04NE 8101.
Horizontal Datum = UND
Surveying Details
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17 August 1976. An 'old whiskey wreck' with a wooden hull is reported at position 54 46 51N, 005 01 04W.
Report by A. Newton, sub aqua diver.
Hydrographic Office 1995.
(Classified as wooden ship, with cargo of whisky (?): no date of loss specified). Unknown: [no further information].
(Location of loss cited as N54 46.85 W5 1.07).
I G Whittaker 1998.
This wreck is not charted as such. Float Bay is a small W-facing bay on the rocky W side of the Rhinns of Galloway, about 5 miles S of Portpatrick. The chart indicates no depth within the bay, and no local seabed type.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 September 2009.
UKHO chart no. 2198 (1978, revised 1987).
Evidence Of Loss (17 August 1976)
Horizontal Datum = UND
Surveying Details
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17 August 1976. An 'old whiskey wreck' with a wooden hull is reported at position 54 46 51N, 005 01 04W.
Report by A. Newton, sub aqua diver.
Hydrographic Office 1995.
(Classified as wooden ship, with cargo of whisky (?): no date of loss specified). Unknown: [no further information].
(Location of loss cited as N54 46.85 W5 1.07).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (22 September 2009)
This wreck is not charted as such. Float Bay is a small W-facing bay on the rocky W side of the Rhinns of Galloway, about 5 miles S of Portpatrick. The chart indicates no depth within the bay, and no local seabed type.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 September 2009.
UKHO chart no. 2198 (1978, revised 1987).
Reference (19 April 2012)
UKHO Identifier : 005156
Feature Class : Wreck
State : LIVE
Classification : Unclassified
Position (Lat/long) : 54.78083,-5.01778
Horizontal Datum : ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN (1936)
WGS84 Position (Lat/long) : 54.78090,-5.01891
WGS84 Origin : 3-D Cartesian Shift (BW)
Previous Position : 54.78083,-5.01778
Position Quality : Unreliable
Depth Quality : Depth unknown
Water Depth : 8
Vertical Datum : Lowest Astronomical Tide
Name : UNKNOWN
Bottom Texture : Rock
Contact Description : Entire wreck
Original Sensor : Diver Sighting
Original Detection Year : 1976
Original Source : Divers
Surveying Details : **H1282/76/50 17.8.76 WOODEN 'OLD WHISKY WK' REPD IN 544651N, 050104W [OGB]. (A NEWTON). FOR FILING ONLY. NCA.
General Comments : WOODEN WK
Charting Comments : POSN FOR FILING ONLY
Date Last Amended : 28/08/2009
Date Position Last Amended : 28/08/2009
