This is the information page about the shipwreck Aracataca, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 36.12 N,0 1.82 E (50.6523667, -0.6161833)

 

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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. Afon dulais
2. Alaska
3. Algiers
4. Alison (possibly)
5. Angry fish
6. Aracataca
7. Ariel
8. Armenier
9. Arno (possibly)
10. Ashford
11. Atlas (probably)
12. Axwell
13. Barn hill
14. Basil-2
15. Bettann (bow section)
16. Blanefield
17. Branksome chine (possibly)
18. Braunton
19. Cairndhu
20. Cambrian princess (probably)
21. Candia
22. Carbineer
23. Celtic
24. Charles m
25. City of brisbane
26. City of mexico
27. Cuba
28. D144 (possibly).
29. Dagana
30. Del rio
31. Devon coast
32. Donegal (possibly)
33. Duke of buccleuch
34. Eduard (possibly)
35. Elford
36. F/v joanna c
37. Fife coast (possibly)
38. Flag theofano
39. Fort yale
40. Fpt iv
41. Frode
42. Fulham vii (probably)
43. Gartland
44. Gascony
45. George sutton
46. Gerarda
47. Germa geisha
48. Giuseppina accame
49. Glenlee
50. Hedwig lunstedt
51. Highland corrie
52. Hms apley (possibly)
53. Hms avanturine
54. Hms borneo
55. Hms evadne (possibly)
56. Hms hazardous
57. Hms implacable
58. Hms lancer ii
59. Hms moldavia
60. Hms northcoates
61. Hms ocean sunlight
62. Hms pine
63. Hms prince leopold
64. Hms sapper
65. Hms taipo
66. Hms vernon ii (possibly)
67. Hmsm a1
68. Holme force (possibly)
69. Indiana
70. Inger (possibly)
71. Jaffa
72. Joseph roberts (possibly)
73. Lalen mendi
74. Leven (possibly)
75. Lightfoot (possibly)
76. Lola (possibly)
77. London trader (possibly)
78. Lowmount
79. Lulonga (possibly)
80. Marga
81. Marie marguerite (possibly)
82. Mill gate (probably)
83. Mira
84. Mohlenpris (possibly)
85. Molesey (possibly)
86. Montecrana (possibly)
87. Mount stuart
88. Mv adur valley?
89. Newent
90. Noordster
91. Ny-eeasteyr
92. Nyon
93. Petit forban
94. Polandia (possibly)
95. Porthkerry
96. Quail
97. Ramsgarth
98. Ramsholm (possibly)
99. Rfa hungerford (possibly)
100. Saint andre (probably)
101. Saint ronaig
102. Seven seas (possibly)
103. Shirala
104. Sines (possibly)
105. Spearfish
106. Stanhope
107. Stanwold
108. Stavros (possibly)
109. T r thompson
110. Teelin head
111. U 1195
112. U 275 (probably)
113. U 40 (possibly)
114. U 671
115. U 86 (formerly)
116. U 86 (possibly)
117. Ub 130
118. Ub 81
119. Vasco
120. Venus
121. Vesuvio (possibly)
122. Vigda
123. War helmet
124. Zaanstroom

 

Name: ARACATACA

Length 114.6 meter, width: 14.6 meter, draught: 8.8, tonnage 4154 ton
Load: foodstuffs: preserved,foodstuffs: solid

Cause: Vessel, built in 1911 by workman clark & co. and owned at the time of loss by elders & fyffes, sank following a collision with ss 'moliere' while on passage liverpool to dunkirk. (dods).

Year of registration: 1928

Water depth above wreck: 51 meter, Height above seabed: 135 cm

Known since: 1928, last detected: 20160921

Details measurements/cartography: H2537/28 17.8.28 SANK IN 503530N, 001130E, APPROX. NCA. H2979/74 11.5.76 WK IN 503552N, 000152E. POSN BY DECCA. (E GILES). H2326/75 3.6.76 LARGE WK LOCATED IN 503602N, 000150E. POSN BY DECCA. (E GILES, 25.5.76). 8.1.79 INS AS NDW IN 503602N, 000150E. NE 1652. H1965/76 26.11.80 EXAM'D 3.5.80 IN 503603N, 000155E [OGB] USING TRISPONDER. LEAST E/S DEPTH 42.4MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 54MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 1MTR. HYDROSEARCH LENGTH 106.7MTRS, BEAM 12.6MTRS, HT 12.2MTRS. LYING ON ITS SIDE, N/S, BOWS S. LONG SCOUR TO E OF WK. MAST SEEN LYING ALONGSIDE ON SEABED. (HMS BULLDOG HI 37A/77). AMEND TO WK 42MTRS. BR STD. H2350/85 16.2.87 EXAM'D 9.8.86 IN 503605N, 000157E [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 41.6 IN GEN DEPTH 54MTRS. SCOUR 6.5MTRS DEEP. DCS3 HT 16MTRS, LENGTH 115MTRS, BEAM 16MTRS. LYING 121/301DEGS. (NP 1008, HI 317B). NCA. 16.9.91 HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THE 'ARACATACA'. A PLATE BEARING THIS NAME RECOVERED FROM A DOOR. (C MARTIN, TELECON). COMMERCIAL GUARD REQUESTED. HH100/351/04 13.11.91 DIVED SEPT 1991. CHINA PLATE, ELDERS & FYFFES, RECOVERED. BONES SEEN IN HOLD. PRESUME THIS TO BE WK OF 'ARACATACA' WITH A CARGO OF FROZEN MEAT. LIES ON PORT SIDE WITH BOW N AND ABOUT ONE THIRD BURIED IN SEABED. (T W BENNETTO, 2.11.91). SEP 2015/000083466 5.2.16 EXAM'D 21.09.15 IN 5036.120N, 0001.820E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 40.93MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 51.83MTRS. LENGTH 115MTRS, HT 10.9MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS, SCOUR LENGTH 275MTRS TOWARDS 090, SCOUR DEPTH 2MTRS. BROKEN UP WK, PARTIALLY BURIED, LYING ON ITS SIDE, STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY, HI 1477). AMEND NDW 40MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, ON PORT SIDE, BOWS N

Position: 50 36.12 N,0 1.82 E

 

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