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Hms Scotstoun: Outer Hebrides, Atlantic
Armed Merchant Cruiser (20th Century)
Site Name Hms Scotstoun: Outer Hebrides, Atlantic
Classification Armed Merchant Cruiser (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ss Caledonia
Canmore ID 102384
Site Number ME61SE 8001
NGR ME
NGR Description Unlocated
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/102384
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Maritime - Western Isles
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ME61SE 8001 unlocated
Formerly entered under classification Auxiliary Cruiser and location cited as ME 6714 1249 (N57 0 W9 53).
Quality of fix = PA
Horizontal Datum = OGB
Circumstances of Loss Details
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The HMS SCOTSTOUN vessel was the ex Anchor Line vessel, SS CALEDONIA, built in 1925. She taken over by the Admiralty and fitted out as an auxilliary cruiser. She was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, U27, in the NW approaches.
Sources: Dictionary of Disasters at Sea, World War II Shipping Loses, Axis Submarine Successes.
Surveying Details
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1940. The vessel sank at 57 00 00N, 009 53 00W.The position given is 57 00 00N, 009 56 00W, in 1100 fathoms (2011 metres).
Source: commercial in confidence Western Approaches
9 May 1991. The sinking position is given as 200 miles west of Inishtrahull in the Dictionary of Disaster at Sea. The sinking position is given as 57 00 00N, 009 57 00W in Axis Submarine Successes.
This plots in over 2000 metres.
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on account of its location far out to the West.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 February 2002.
