This is the information page about the shipwreck Andromeda, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 8.971 N,4 59.254 W (50.149517, -4.987567)

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: ANDROMEDA

Length 82.7 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 7.2, tonnage 1928 ton
Load: grain

Cause: built in 1890 by r duncan & co. ltd, port glasgow. passage tacoma for falmouth. was wrecked on killigerran head in a southerly gale whilst awaiting the pilot. (cornish shipwrecks vol 1 & sibi).

Year of registration: 1915

Water depth above wreck: 6 meter

Known since: 1915, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: 8.1.80 8.1.80 WRECKED ON KILLIGERRAN HEAD, NEAR FALMOUTH. (CORNISH SHIPWRECKS VOL 1). POSN 500905N, 045850W [OGB] FOR FILING ONLY. 19.2.13 19.2.13 NOT LOCATED BY M/B. (EGS, FOR CHANNEL COASTAL OBSERVATORY, HI 1403). NCA. 29.10.13 29.10.13 BOW OF WK LIES IN 5008.971N, 0459.254W [WGD], IN A GULLY ABOUT 10MTRS FROM THE SHORE. THE GULLY HAS A SHALLOW REEF AT THE SEAWARD SIDE THAT STOPS MOST BOATS GETTING NEAR IT APART FROM AT A HIGH SPRING TIDE. AVERAGE DEPTH IS BETWEEN 6 & 8MTRS. (M MILLBURN, EMAIL DTD 25.10.13). BA 154 STS TO SHOW. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: LIES IN GULLY, SHALLOW REEF LIES TO SEAWARD

Position: 50 8.971 N,4 59.254 W

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