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Unknown: North Minch
Craft (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Unknown: North Minch
Classification Craft (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Eilean A' Chonnaidh; Cape Wrath; Atlantic; Unknown 1940
Canmore ID 222696
Site Number NB96SE 8003
NGR NB 976 618
NGR Description NB c. 976 618
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NB96SE 8003 c. 976 618
N58 29.9 W5 28.4
NLO: Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]..
See also NB96SE 8005.
Formerly entered in error within quasi-administrative area Maritime - Western Isles.
A wreck is charted in 72m depth of water at N58 29.9 W5 28.4 [NB c. 976 618]. This may be the wreck that Ridley notes in about 70m depth, 5.7 miles W of Eilean a' Chonnaidh [name: NC 203 570].
The cited location falls about 32km SW of Cape Wrath.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 October 2002.
G Ridley 1990; HO chart no. 1785 (1993).
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 7190
Name : UNKNOWN 1940
Latitude : 582948
Longitude : 52836
Type : TANKER (?)
Position : Position Approximate
Loss Day : 15
Loss Month : 7
Loss Year : 1940
Comment : Torped by U58 at German posn AM3659 and observed to break her back
