This is the information page about the shipwreck Adela (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 29.791 N,4 55.246 W (53.546566666667, -4.6729833333333)

 

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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. Adela (possibly)
2. Alhambra
3. Arno mendi
4. British viscount
5. Conargo
6. Cressado
7. Cressida
8. Dalewood (probably)
9. Dundalk
10. Eskmere
11. Fairearn (probably)
12. Fairisle
13. Farfield
14. Ferocious
15. Fin-ar-bed
16. Harold
17. Hms campina
18. Kenmare
19. Kirkmichael
20. La rochelle (possibly)
21. Lowther range (probably)
22. Maarten cornelis
23. Marquess of bute (possibly)
24. Mary
25. Missouri
26. Nadejda (possibly)
27. Normandy coast
28. Oliver cromwell
29. Oria
30. Osseo
31. Penvearn
32. Rhyl
33. Saint olaf
34. Sarpfos
35. Slieve bloom
36. Theme
37. Trieste
38. Trinidad
39. U 1024 (probably)
40. U 246
41. Uss roanoke
42. Vivar
43. Westward ho

 

Name: ADELA (POSSIBLY)

Length 61 meter, width: 9.8 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 685 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1878 by h murray & co, port glasgow. owned at time of loss by tedcastle, mccormick & co ltd. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 181nhp, single shaft. machinery aft by kincaid, donald & co, greencock. passage dublin for liverpool. torpedoed by u-100. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1976

Water depth above wreck: 84 meter, Height above seabed: 50 cm

Known since: 1976, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: SANK 12 MILES NW FROM SKERRIES LIGHT. (WW1SL). H4827/75 24.1.77 H4827/75 24.1.77 WK LOCATED 10.11.76 IN 532947N, 0045511W.[OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 74.5 IN GEN DEPTH 83MTRS. DCS3 HT 10MTRS. LENGTH 50MTRS. LIES 050/230DEGS. A SMALLER WK LOCATED ALSO 130MTRS BEARING 240DEGS FROM THIS WK WITH DCS3 HT 7MTRS. LENGTH 20MTRS, LYING 060/240DEGS. NOT INVESTIGATED DUE TO ITS NEARNESS TO LARGE WK. (HMS FOX, HI 54/76). INS AS WKS 73MTRS. BR STD AND

- NM 551/77. 17.11.00 17.11.00 AMEND TO WK 73MTRS. WK [58968] NOTED AS SEPARATE RECORD. BR STD. 10.3.14 10.3.14 EXAM'D 6.11.13 IN 5329.791N, 0455.246E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 73.80 IN GEN DEPTH 84MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 40.3MTRS, WIDTH 10.8MTRS, HT 10.20MTRS. LIES 050/230 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. UPRIGHT, INTACT BUT FOR BOW SECTION. SMALL SECTION OF POSSIBLE DEBRIS LIES 10MTRS NE. (NETSURVEY, 1420). AMEND POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, BOWS (MISSING) NE

Position: 53 29.791 N,4 55.246 W

 

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