Stina: Sea Of The Hebrides

NM27NE 8001 c. 253 766

N56 48 W6 30

NLO: Cairns of Coll [name: NM 288 665]

Coll [name centred NM 20 57].

Formerly entered as NM28SW 1, NM28SW 8001, NM28SW 8576 at cited location NM 2222 8166 [N56 48 W6 30].

Quality of fix = PA

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Circumstances of Loss Details

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The steamship STINA was captured by a German submarine, and then sunk 8 miles N by E from Cairns of Coll.

Surveying Details

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4 March 1918. The STINA was seen to explode by not sink 8 miles N by E from the Cairns of Coll.

3 March 1918. The vessel's approximate position was 56 48 00N, 006 30 00W.

Report by Royal Air Force, Stornoway.

8 April 1918. The wreck's position is given as 8 miles N of the Cairns of Coll.

22 March 1919. The wreck's position is given as 56 48 00N, 006 30 00W.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of coal: former names cited as Ariel and Inverleith, and date of loss as 2 March 1918). Stina: this vessel was captured and sunk by a [German] submarine 8 miles N of Cairns of Coll (maybe N by E).

Registration: Swedish. Built 1883. 1136grt. Length: 69m. Beam: 10m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 48.0 W6 30.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Accuracy of location downgraded from NM 2222 8166 [N56 48 W6 30] and amended to NM c. 253 766 [N56 48 W6 30] on account of inherent inaccuracy of report and absence of identifiable wreck evidence. Larn and Larn cite the location of this record as N56 48 W6 30.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 March 2002.

The location assigned to this record remains unverified.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 April 2008.