| Ship Name: | ARCHITECT | Ship Type: | STEAMSHIP | Ship Flag: | British |
| Ship Tonnage: | 5421 | Ship Port: | Glasgow | Ship Number: | 135428 |
| Ship Call: | JBHG | Ship Length: | 410.6 | Ship Width: | 52.35 |
| Ship Draught: | 34.2 | Ship Year: | 1912 | Ship Builder: | Charles Connell & Co. Ltd. |
| Ship Init Owner: | T. & J. Harrison | Ship Engine: | T. 3cyl | Engine Builder: | Dunsmuir & Jackson ltd. Glasgow |
| Ship Boiler: | ------ | Boiler Builder: | Updated: | 1 | |
| Wreck Name: | Location: | ||
| Northerly: | N 53 23 14.00 | Westerly: | W 002 59 11.00 |
| Position Acc: | Wreck Date: | 29/10/1933 | |
| Wreck Cargo: | GENERAL | Wreck Master: | |
| Wreck File: | Wreck Card I D: | MDHB/MS/4/3/1/25 | |
| Wreck Card Image: | MDHBWK025 | Dec Lat: | 53.387222222222 |
| Dec Long: | -2.986388888889 | wreckcol: | |
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| Ref Title: | Circumstances of loss MDHB/MS/4/3/1/25 | Ref Note: | GROUNDED WHILE LEAVING THE BRUNSWICK ENTRANCES WAS REFLOATED BUT MADE WATER AND WAS GROUNDED AGAIN SUBSEQUENTLY BROKE HER BACK CARGO DISCHARGED INTO LIGHTERS SOME CARGO FLOATED OUT |
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| Ref Title: | Survey Notes MDHB/MS/4/3/1/25 | Ref Note: | H7477/33 3.11.33 NO ACTION INNER WATERS(MERSEY HBR BRD NM) H7477/33 8.11.33 WRECK TO BE MARKED BY CAN LTBUOY NO ACTION(MERSEY HB NM) M7477/33 25.6.35 REMOVED & BUOY WITHDRAWN(MERSEY HR NM) 24.4.73 CONTRACT ENTERED INTO WITH SHIPBREAKERS FOR REMOVAL OF VESSEL LEVEL WITH LBD(LIVERPOOL WRECK RECORDS) |
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| Ref Title: | LMRS | Ref Note: | Sailed from Brunswick Dock at 07.00 bound for Nassau, Kingston, Belize, and Mexico with a General Cargo, much of it heavy machinery. Ran aground on Pluckington Bank. Several badly damaged plates. Tugs refloated her but sudden influx of water required hasty grounding on bank and subsequently broke her back following a period of stormy weather. (Harrisons of liverpool) |
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| Ref Title: | LL 30th Oct 1933 | Ref Note: | SS ARCHITECT outbound for Tampico on October 28th grounded at 7.00am about 1,000 ft from dock wall after leaving Brunswick Dock. Four tugs failed to float the vessel laden with Machinery and other heavy cargo. Vessel refloated at high water last night 29th with assistance of six tugs, but vessel making water badly into No. 3 hold, the boiler room and engine room. The vessel was put aground again opposite the Old Coberg Dock entrance where she broke her back at 10.00pm. She broke amidships about 300 yds from the quay wall with her stern resting on one sand bank and her bow resting on another. |
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