This is the information page about the shipwreck Atlas (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 34.624 N,0 32.96 W (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. 010
2. Afon dulais
3. Alaska
4. Algiers
5. Alison (possibly)
6. Ariel
7. Arno (possibly)
8. Atlas (probably)
9. Axwell
10. Basil-2
11. Cairndhu
12. Candia
13. Carbineer
14. City of mexico
15. Clan macmillan
16. Del rio
17. Donegal (possibly)
18. Duke of buccleuch
19. Frode
20. Gartland
21. Gascony
22. Germa geisha
23. Giuseppina accame
24. Glenlee
25. Hedwig lunstedt
26. Highland corrie
27. Hmcs alberni
28. Hms evadne (possibly)
29. Hms hazardous
30. Hms implacable
31. Hms moldavia
32. Hms northcoates
33. Hms pine
34. Hms sapper
35. Hms vernon ii (possibly)
36. Ikeda (possibly)
37. Indiana
38. Ingo
39. Jaffa
40. Lightfoot (possibly)
41. Lola (possibly)
42. London trader (possibly)
43. Lowmount
44. Lulonga (possibly)
45. Maaslust
46. Marga
47. Marie marguerite (possibly)
48. Miown
49. Molesey (possibly)
50. Ny-eeasteyr
51. Pentyrch
52. Polandia (possibly)
53. Porthkerry
54. Quail
55. Ramsgarth
56. Ramsholm (possibly)
57. Rfa hungerford (possibly)
58. Saint andre (probably)
59. Saint enogat
60. Shirala
61. Sines (possibly)
62. Stanwold
63. Stavros (possibly)
64. Teelin head
65. U 86 (formerly)
66. U 86 (possibly)
67. Vesuvio (possibly)
68. Vigda
69. War helmet
70. Zaanstroom

 

Name: ATLAS (PROBABLY)

Length 66.1 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 989 ton
Load: coal

Cause: Built in 1896 by frederikstad mek vaerks, frederikstad. owned at time of loss by the shipping controller. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 101hp, single shaft. passage warkworth for rouen. cargo coal. torpedoed by ub-56.

Year of registration: 1928

Water depth above wreck: 40 meter, Height above seabed: 148 cm

Known since: 1928, last detected: 2003

Details measurements/cartography: H8203/19 18.8.28 WK IN 503435N, 003400W OR 5M SE OWERS LTV. H4121/76 13.1.77 EXAM'D 19.8.76 IN 503435N, 003252W [OGB] USING HIFIX/3 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 33.7MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 41MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.2-5.2MTRS. LENGTH 76MTRS. LIES WNW/ESE. INTACT AND UPRIGHT. (HMS FOX HI 52/76). CHART AS WK 33MTRS. BR STD. H1270/72 8.1.78 DIVED 1N 1977. LENGTH 250FT. LIES 280/100 DEGS. BOWS EASTERLY. HT 26FT. DEPTH 150FT. DECKS & SOME SUPERSTRUCTURE INTACT. SMALL WRECKAGE ON SEABED TO STBD. LARGE HOLE STBD SIDE AMIDSHIPS. NO POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION ON THIS DIVE. (M WALSH, 8.1.78). NCA. HH091/002/01 29.10.02 EXAM'D 12.7.02 IN 5034.612N, 0032.944W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 34.8, FOUL 35.3MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 35.0 IN GEN DEPTH 40MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP ALONG LENGTH OF WK. LENGTH 45MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. DCS3 HT 3.0MTRS. LIES 160/340 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. WELL DEFINED WK. (NP 1016, HI 1002). AMEND TO SW 34MTRS. BR STD. HH090/952/01 27.10.03 EXAM'D 4.7.03 IN 5034.624N, 0032.960W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 34.8, FOUL 35.3MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 34.8 IN GEN DEPTH 40MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 56MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. DCS3 HT 9.0MTRS. LIES 148/328 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT, UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 952). RETAIN AS SW 34MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT & UPRIGHT, SCOUR ALONG LENGTH

Position: 50 34.624 N,0 32.96 W

 

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