Maritime record MHG14842 - Durham Castle: North Sutor

NH86NE 8002 8664 6843
N 57 41.5 W 3 54.1

Formerly NH86NE 8566

Quality of fix = HF
Horizontal Datum = OGB
General water depth = 18
Orientation of keel/wreck = 340160

Circumstances of Loss Details
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The special services vessel DURHAM CASTLE purchased by Admiralty for use as store ship, but was mined.

Surveying Details
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A steel wreck, approximately 200 feet (61 metres) long, was located at the charted posn. The vessel lies on her starboard side with a large jagged hole in the port side. The keel is orientated 340/160 degrees. The vessel stands approx 4.5 metres above a flat, hard sandy seabed. Report by HMS DINGLEY, 11 April 1964.

10 March 1976. The vessel was located at decca [n scot] red i 8.95, green a 38.51, purple a 69.05 or Moray Firth hf - pat 1 148.96, pat 2 120.25. The least echosounder depth obtained was 19.6 in a general depth of 20 metres. A scour to the water depth of 22 metres was observed.
Report by HMS ENTERPRISE.

10 June 1993. After a thorough magnetometer search, only wreckage was found. This took the form of piles of iron hull plating covering a large area. It appears that either the wreck has been dispersed or has completely collapsed. Nothing was found to stand more than 2 metres high.
Report by J Leigh, 27 April 1993.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.