This is the information page about the shipwreck Avalanche, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 26.568 N,2 50.714 W (50.442800, -2.845233)

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: AVALANCHE

Length 65.5 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 1210 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,clay products

Cause: built in 1874 by alexander hall, aberdeen. sank following a collision with canadian sv forrest. passage london for new zealand. 32 men lost.

Year of registration: 1877

Water depth above wreck: 48 meter, Height above seabed: 137 cm

Known since: 1877, last detected: 2003

Details measurements/cartography: SANK ABOUT 15 MILES S BY W OF PORTLAND. (DOD). 26.7.17 26.7.17 POSN 502600N, 024900W. (C IN C PLYMOUTH AP REPORT). BMVS POSN 14M W 0.5 S FROM PORTLAND BILL. H4622/55 5.2.60 H4622/55 5.2.60 WK LOCATED IN 502632N, 025036W. LEAST E/S DEPTH 21FMS. LYING APPROX 170/350DEG WITH TWO ISOLATED PIECES AT SOUTHERN END. (SCES/HMS SCOTT, 8.10.54). INS AS WK 21FMS. BR STD. H3950/70 24.5.71 H3950/70 24.5.71 AMEND TO WK 38MTRS. NC 3315. H5982/82 20.1.83 H5982/82 20.1.83 WK SHOWN IN 502631N, 025037W ON KINGFISHER CHART K(SW)1, 1982. 24.7.85 24.7.85 WK IN 502632N, 025036W STATED TO BE THE AVALANCHE. (MR STREETON, TELECON). 13.10.87 13.10.87 REPORTED THAT ONLY FORWARD PART OF WK HAS BEEN FOUND. STERN MISSING. (QHM PORTLAND, TELECON). 25.11.99 25.11.99 WK IS UPRIGHT WITH SLIGHT LIST TO PORT. STANDS 4MTRS PROUD OF SEABED. BADLY DAMAGED PORT SIDE NEAR THE BOW WHICH IS TWISTED TO STBD. COLLAPSED STERN MARKED BY CHAMPAGNE BOTTLES. (DIVER MAGAZINE, DEC 1999). NCA. HH100/351/19 28.5.03 HH100/351/19 28.5.03 DIVED IN 5026.560N, 0250.703W [WGD] USING GPS. STANDS 4MTRS HIGH BY E/S. NO SCOUR. SEABED SAND, GRAVEL AND SHINGLE. INTACT WITH 005DEG LIST TO PORT. GENERALLY BREAKING UP AND SETTLING INTO SEABED. HOLDS FULL OF SILT. COLLISION DAMAGE EVIDENT ON PORT SIDE. (COLIN POOLE, FAX DTD 26.5.03). RETAIN AS WK 38MTRS IN REVISED. POSN. BR STD. HH090/961/01 2.12.03 HH090/961/01 2.12.03 EXAM'D 7.6.03 IN 5026.568N, 0250.714W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 43.5 IN GEN DEPTH 48MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 76MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS. DCS3 HT 5.3MTRS. LIES 137/317 DEGS WITH ?BOWS TOWARDS 317 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. PROBABLY UPRIGHT, WELL BROKEN. (GARDLINE, HI 961). AMEND WK 43MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT BUT BREAKING UP, 5DEG LIST TO PORT, BOWS ?NW

Position: 50 26.568 N,2 50.714 W

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