This is the information page about the shipwreck Acclivity, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 28.118 N,1 32.792 W (55.258666666667, -1.45795)

 

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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.

 

1. Acclivity
2. Aepos
3. Albano
4. Alert (possibly)
5. Annie walker (probably)
6. Arbutus
7. Athelduke
8. Auckland castle
9. Baltanglia
10. Bangarth
11. Buka
12. Bullger
13. Chris christenson
14. Coquet mouth
15. Cor jesu (possibly)
16. Coryton
17. Don (possibly)
18. Dora
19. Driebergen
20. Dutchman
21. Eglinton
22. Elziena
23. Elziena (possibly)
24. Emily reaich
25. Emma
26. Espire
27. Everene (possibly)
28. Fingal
29. Florence dombey (possibly)
30. George and mary (possibly)
31. Gudbrand (possibly)
32. Hazard (probably)
33. Heros (possibly)
34. Hesvik (possibly)
35. Hms ascot
36. Hms fortuna
37. Hms herring
38. Hms kopanes
39. Hms patia
40. Hmsm unity (probably)
41. Hooghammen
42. Hornchurch (probably)
43. Igor
44. Invergyle
45. Isbul & margarit
46. Jan van ryswyck
47. Lafonia
48. Lunesdale (possibly)
49. Maystone (possibly)
50. Merwede
51. Morlaix (probably)
52. Nidelven
53. Ocean venture
54. Olimpia/?olympia (possibly)
55. Peik (probably)
56. Pluto
57. Princess maud (possibly)
58. Provider a
59. Queen wilhelmina
60. Ragnhild (possibly)
61. Regian
62. Rising sun
63. Shadwan
64. Skovdal (probably)
65. Snowdonia
66. Somali
67. Spey (possibly)
68. Sphynx
69. St andre
70. St fergus
71. Svava
72. Tadorne
73. The tetrarch (probably)
74. Thistle
75. Thomas jackson (possibly)
76. Tioga
77. U 1274
78. Ub 115 (possibly)
79. Upcerne

 

Name: ACCLIVITY

Length 50 meter, width: 7.5 meter, tonnage 389 ton
Load: foodstuffs: solid,oil

Cause: built in 1931 by g brown, greenock, with oil engine, single shaft. owned at time of loss by f t everard & sons ltd. aft oil engine, single shaft. passage thames haven for newburgh, fife. struck a submerged object and damaged the propeller. taken in tow but foundered in heavy weather. (r young & sibi).

Year of registration: 1990

Water depth above wreck: 26 meter, Height above seabed: 14 cm

Known since: 1990, last detected: 1999

Details measurements/cartography: HH100/351/01 29.6.90 HH100/351/01 29.6.90 DIVED IN 552818N, 013248W USING GPS. WK OF SMALL COASTER, POSSIBLY A TANKER. ABOUT 130FT LONG, 20FT BEAM. LIES E/W, WITH BOW E, ON PORT SIDE AND IN A GULLY. ENGINE AFT CONFIGURATION AND MUCH PIPEWORK ON DECK. STILL IN ONE PIECE BUT HULL IS IN BAD CONDITION. LIES IN GEN DEPTH 100FT. (D COX, FAX DTD 12.6.90). INS AS NDW. BR STD. HH100/351/15 20.9.99 HH100/351/15 20.9.99 WK IS NEARLY INTACT, ON HER PORT SIDE IN 34MTRS. DECK VERTICAL AND AGAINST A SMALL REEF. SMALL SUPERSTRUCTURE HAS NOW FALLEN ONTO THE STONEY SEABED WITH A GREAT DEAL OF DEBRIS BETWEEN THE DECKS AND THE REEF. BELL NOT SO FAR RECOVERED. MUCH OF THE FWD END TAKEN UP WITH PIPEWORK. STEEL RAILINGS STILL RUN FROM THE FRIDGE TO A SMALL HATCH ON THE BOWS. STERN DECKING IS WELL DETERIORATED. RUDDER HANGING IN THE PINTLES AND BRONZE PROPELLER STILL IN PLACE. CONSIDERED TO BE 'ACCLIVITY'. (R YOUNG). SEE ALSO [4373]. NCA. HH090/843/01 24.12.99 HH090/843/01 24.12.99 EXAM'D 2.8.99 IN 5528.118N, 0132.792W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 22.2, FOUL 22.5MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 22.1 IN GEN DEPTH 26.9MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.6MTRS. LIES 014/194 DEGS WITH BOWS 194 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT AND ON ITS SIDE. LOCAL DIVERS REPORT THIS WK TO BE THE 'ACCLIVITY'. (GARDLINE, HI 843). AMEND TO WK SW 22MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, ON PORT SIDE, BOWS S

Position: 55 28.118 N,1 32.792 W

 

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