This is the information page about the shipwreck Adolf (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 48.916 N,1 34.909 W (58.770716666667, -1.3808333333333)

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.

Name: ADOLF (POSSIBLY)

Length 63.9 meter, width: 8.7 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 835 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-blackley, ex-annie smith. built in 1872 by w cleland, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by anfg akt adolf, gothnburg. two boilers, compound expansion engine of 120nhp, single shaft. passage swansea for sweden. captured & sunk by uc44. (ww1sl & sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 107 meter, Height above seabed: 96 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2008

Details measurements/cartography: H3039/26 POSN 585300N, 013200W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H3875/26 18.6.26 INS NDW (1917) (PA) IN 585300N, 013200W. H1357/62 27.3.62 AMEND TO NDW PA. NC 1942. 9.7.73 AMEND TO WK USC PA 90MTRS. (TONNAGE KNOWN). BR STD. HH091/137/01 - SEP 2009/000003219 24.12.08 EXAM'D 4.8.08 IN 5848.9164N, 0134.9089W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 98.51 IN GEN DEPTH 107MTRS. SCOUR 1.9MTRS DEEP AROUND WK. LENGTH 108.9MTRS, WIDTH 17MTRS, HT 8.5MTRS. LIES 096/276 DEGS WITH BOWS W. UPRIGHT, INTACT. LIMITED DETAIL DUE TO DEPTH. (NETSURVEY, HI 1137). POSSIBLY THIS VESSEL. AMEND WK 98MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, INTACT, SCOUR AROUND WK, BOWS W

Position: 58 48.916 N,1 34.909 W

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