This is the information page about the shipwreck Albion, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 43.346 N,5 13.849 W (51.722433, -5.230817)

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: ALBION

Length 45.9 meter, width: 7.6 meter, draught: 1.9, tonnage 270 ton
Load: personnel,general and mixed goods,animals (land & sea) and birds,coal

Cause: built in 1831 by general steam propulsion co, hotwells, bristol. owned at time of loss by bristol general steam navigation co. one boiler, 2 cylinder inverted lever engine, paddles. struck a rock off skomer island and was run ashore near marloes. 29 crew, 21 passengers, 5 horses and 180 out of 400 pigs carried were saved. broken up for scrap on beach. (sibi). cargo also included irish whisky, linen, wheat and guinness. photo of parts of paddle wheel shaft showing. (shipwrecks around wales).

Year of registration: 1837

Water depth above wreck: 1 meter

Known since: 1837, last detected: 2011

Details measurements/cartography: H4919/77 21.12.77 H4919/77 21.12.77 REPD TO HAVE SUNK IN JACK SOUND IN 1837. (E GILES, LTR DTD 11.12.77). POSN 514400N, 051530W FOR FILING ONLY. 31.3.01 31.3.01 AT CERTAIN STATES OF TIDE TWO IRON SHAFTS MAY PROTRUDE ABOVE THE BEACH ON ALBION SANDS. (SIBI). POSN OF BEACH NOT GIVEN. NCA. HH100/351/22 9.6.06 HH100/351/22 9.6.06 2 IRON SHAFTS SIGHTED PROTRUDING FROM WATER, AT LW, IN 5143.346N, 0513.849W [EUT], WITH OTHER DEBRIS NEARBY. (NIGEL SMITH, UKHO) INS AS ST PA IN AMENDED POSN. BR STD. 6.12.11 6.12.11 SIGHTED NEAR TO LISTED POSN. NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION POSSIBLE. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1328). NOT IN NAVIGABLE AREA. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: IRON SHAFTS (?PADDLE SHAFTS) VISIBLE AT LW

Position: 51 43.346 N,5 13.849 W

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