Wreck: Amulet (Steam ship)

This is the information page about the shipwreck Amulet, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 26.271 N,0 26.709 W (54.437850, -0.445150)


 

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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง, 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.

 

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Shipwreck details

Name: AMULET

Length 75.9 meter, width: 9.1 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1018 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built 1876 by aitken & mansel, glasgow. owned at time of loss by g gibson & co ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 180hn, single shaft. machinery by s & h morton, leith passage rotterdam for leith. general cargo. foundered after collision with norwegian registered ss bors.

Year of registration: 1975

Water depth above wreck: 46 meter, Height above seabed: 96 cm

Known since: 1975, last detected: 20161213

Details measurements/cartography: H4069/72 4.12.75 WK LOCATED IN 542622N, 002600W USING DECCA. STANDS 37FT HIGH ABOVE SEABED. (RISDON BEAZLEY MARINE LTD, HN DTD 13.11.75). INS AS WK 36MTRS.

- NM BLOCK. H6331/87 25.1.89 EXAM'D 25.6.88 IN 542616N, 002636W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 38.4, FOUL AT 38.9MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 39.8 IN GEN DEPTH 46MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 6.9MTRS. LENGTH 85MTRS, BEAM 15MTRS. LIES 105/285 DEGS. DECAYED BUT IN ONE PIECE AND WITH HIGH POINT AMIDSHIPS. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). AMEND TO SW 38MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/06 13.4.93 DIVED ON IN 542619N, 002637W [OGB] USING GPS. STANDS 4MTRS HIGH. WELL BROKEN UP WITH BOW OVER TO STBD, ENGINE AND BOILER UPRIGHT AND STERN MISSING. PROP SHAFT EXPOSED. (G WADSWORTH, 1.3.93). NCA. HH100/351/13 17.3.98 VESSEL CONFIRMED AS 'AMULET'. IDENTIFIED FROM A COMBINATION OF GEORGE GIBSON CROCKERY AND S H MORTON ENGINE MAKER'S PLATE. (A C JACKSON & C A RACEY, LTR DTD 12.3.98). SEP 2017/000002822 23.5.17 EXAM'D 13.12.16 IN 5426.271N, 0026.709W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 39.48MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 46MTRS. LENGTH 75.2MTRS, WIDTH 14.6MTRS, HT 6.3MTRS, ORIENTATION 096/276 DEGS. WK SEVERELY DEGRADED CONSISTS OF TWO BOILERS AND STEAM ENGINE MIDSHIPS. (MMT, HI 1491). AMEND NDW 39MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 26.271 N,0 26.709 W

 

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