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Ship Eugenie 1906 Grounding Gallery SHIP EUGENIE MAPS AND CHARTS, PICTURES 1 - 5: An early history of the immigrant ship Eugenie indicated that it was ".... bought from London 1897, lost at Nedre Quarken 1906". In plain English, this means the lower, or southern, straits of the Baltic Sea near Stockholm, Sweden. In modern Swedish, it is "Sodra Kvarken", which is shown in pictures 1 and2. The northern straits of the Baltic (Norra Kavarken) are located in the upper right corner of Picture 1, but is not labeled.
Picture 1: An overview map of the northern Baltic, showing the route of Eugenie's fateful voyage in May 1906. She was travelling from Domsjo, Sweden to London with a load of wood chips and went aground in fog and a gale on the Bjornsgrund rocks and shallows just east of Stockholm.
Picture 2: An overview of Ålands hav. You can see SÖDRA KVARKEN in the north. The Björngrundet is not in Södra Kvarken. The FORLISRAPPORT (See Picture 8) said it was in the Stockholm Archipelago. Further south you can on the Åland side see FLÖTJAN; marked with the lighthouse it has these days. It was because of fear of Flötjan, and the fact that there were no light-house or fog-horn there in 1906, that Eugenie drifted to far west in the North by north-easterly gale. The wind was not THAT heavy, it was still fog, remember. Just heavy wind, but the fog was the dangerous part.
Picture 3: An
overview chart in high detail. In the north you see the fairway leading in
from Finland into the Stockholm area - a black line going in north of
SÖDERARM. From Söderarm, follow southeast and you come to STORGRUND,
marked with a stick (it is an actual thing in the sea, marking that
ground). Further to the southeast is Björngrundet. It is actually called
BjörnSgrund, but if you talk about it in definitive terms, you call it
BjörngrundET, i.e. THE Björngrund.
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PICTURE 1 PICTURE 2 PICTURE 3 PICTURE 4 PICTURE 5
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Picture 4: A highly expanded sea chart at a
scale 1:50 000. The Eugenie wreck site is northeast and is near the famous
SVENSKA BJÖRN, i.e. Swedish Björn, which had a light-ship for many years,
although not in these days. The site is clearly marked with a red arrow
and an outline of a sailing ship. To help confuse, There is also a SÖDRA
BJÖRNGRUNDET (THE SOUTHERN BJÖRNGRUND) southwest of Svenska Björn.