This is the information page about the shipwreck Amethyst (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 44.106 N,5 12.596 W (52.73695, -5.3741666666667)

 

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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. Abbas combe (possibly)
2. Agberi (possibly)
3. Amethyst (probably)
4. Birchwood (possibly)
5. Boscawen (probably)
6. Chelford
7. Cyrene
8. Damao (possibly)
9. Fort rona (possibly)
10. Foyle (possibly)
11. Francoise de lille (possibly)
12. Galatea (possibly)
13. Halberdier (possibly)
14. Janvold
15. Kirkby (probably)
16. Knut
17. M.s.c. irwell
18. Metric
19. Oronsa
20. Perseus
21. Raf vitol (possibly)
22. Rose marie (probably)
23. Spenser (possibly)
24. Susanne ii
25. Swanland
26. Tarbetness
27. Tarbetness
28. U 87
29. U 87 (part of) (possibly)
30. Walpas (possibly)

 

Name: AMETHYST (PROBABLY)

Length 66.4 meter, width: 8.8 meter, draught: 4.8, tonnage 934 ton
Load: grain

Cause: built of iron in 1879 by gourlay bros & co, dundee. owned at time of loss by j lindsay, dundee gem line. single boiler, compound engine, single screw. passage liverpool for barcelona. cargo seed. foundered following collision with ss annbis.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 83 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H4551/76 10.11.76 H4551/76 10.11.76 DIVED IN 1957 524200N, 051142W USING DECCA. BUILDERS PLATE RECOVERED MARKED: 'GOURLAY BROTHERS & CO, ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS, DUNDEE 1879.' (RISDON BEAZLEY, 23.9.76). H1935/80 14.5.82 H1935/80 14.5.82 NOTHING FOUND WITHIN 1MILE OF POSN REPD BY RISDON BEAZLEY. SMALL INTACT WK EXAM'D 18.6.81 IN 524405N, 051230W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 79.6 IN GEN DEPTH 83MTRS. SCOUR 83.5MTRS. DCS3 HT 4MTRS. LYING 090/270 DEGS. (HMS FAWN, HI 3). BR STD. 27.1.14 SEP 2014/000004134 27.1.14 LOCATED IN 5244.106N, 0512.596W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 79.7MTRS. (CEFAS MID-ST GEORGE'S CHANNEL SURVEY, 2013). AMEND POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: SMALL, INTACT WK

Position: 52 44.106 N,5 12.596 W

 

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