This is the information page about the shipwreck Balbec, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 3.247 N,5 41.999 W (50.27365, -5.4894666666667)

 

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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. A a raven
2. Acklington
3. Aida lauro
4. Alacrity
5. Alden gifford (possibly)
6. Alster (possibly)
7. Antwerpen
8. Arbel (probably)
9. Arnside (possibly)
10. Asia
11. Aurelien
12. Austria (possibly)
13. Balbec
14. Besse (probably)
15. Bessemer city (probably)
16. Bill (part of)(possibly)
17. Bill (possibly)
18. Boynton (possibly)
19. Busby
20. Chimu
21. Christina
22. Christos markettos
23. City of cardiff
24. City of westminster (& kul)
25. Clan macnab
26. Congener
27. Conqueror
28. Courtown
29. Dageid
30. Denebola
31. Depois
32. Devon
33. Dunaskin
34. Dundee (probably)
35. Dux (possibly)
36. Emblem
37. Empire flamingo (for'd section)
38. Empire kingsley
39. Enrico parodi
40. Facto
41. Fanny lambert
42. Gallier (possibly)
43. Garthclyde (possibly)
44. Gemini
45. Glamorgan coast
46. Glendale
47. Gleno
48. Hekla (possibly)
49. Helene (probably)
50. Hellopes
51. Hms royalo
52. Hms warspite
53. Hms warspite (part of)
54. Holland xix
55. Hopeful (possibly)
56. Iona
57. J duncan
58. Jose de aramburu
59. Joshua nicholson
60. Juan ferrer
61. Juanita
62. Kate thomas (possibly)
63. Kildonan ?
64. Kilmaho
65. Kintuck
66. Lake grafton
67. Lake grafton (possibly)
68. Liberty
69. Lincoln
70. Lovat
71. Luna
72. Lutece (part of)(possibly)
73. Luxembourg (probably)
74. Lyminge
75. Madeline
76. Maria de larrinaga
77. Marie roberts
78. Maroc
79. Moorview
80. Mystique (possibly)
81. Nanna (possibly)
82. New pioneer
83. Nile
84. Noya (possibly)
85. Ocean harvest
86. Orion
87. Oriskany
88. Phoenix 202
89. Phoenix 203
90. Pioneer (possibly)
91. Polesley (possibly)
92. Ponthieu
93. Primo ?
94. Primrose (remains of)(possibly)
95. Regency (probably)
96. Reidar (possibly)
97. Rms mulheim
98. Saint guenole
99. Saxon briton
100. Sea viper
101. Setubel(probably)
102. Sirius (possibly)
103. St chamond
104. Stabil (possibly)
105. Sten (possibly)
106. Sylvia-mary z-525
107. Thorsa (part of)(possibly)
108. Traute sarnow
109. Tungufoss
110. Tyrhaug
111. U 1209 (possibly)
112. U 247 (possibly)
113. Umbre
114. Underwood
115. Union star (parts of)(probably)
116. Veghtstroom (possibly)
117. Vigrid (possibly)
118. Vine branch (possibly)
119. Vinovia
120. Wild boar
121. William cory
122. Yewcroft
123. Zone (probably)

 

Name: BALBEC

Length 63.7 meter, width: 9.2 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 848 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,chemicals,animals (land & sea) and birds

Cause: built in 1853 by w denny & bros, dumbarton. compound expansion engine of 139nhp, single shaft. passage liverpool for le havre. struck a rock in thick fog and ran aground at nanjizel cove, lands end. no lives lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1884

Water depth above wreck: 3 meter, Height above seabed: 43 cm

Known since: 1884, last detected: 2009

Details measurements/cartography: H2959/73 20.8.73 H2959/73 20.8.73 FOUND IN 500309N, 054200W APPROX [POSN ESTIMATED FROM 2.5 O.S.MAP]. VIRTUALLY BURIED IN SAND WITH BOILER & TOP OF ENGINE ONLY SHOWING. CAST IRON PROPELLOR. LIES E/W STERN TO WEST. DEPTH ROUGHLY 28FT. (E GILES). POSN FOR FILING ONLY. HH091/246/01 30.4.09 HH091/246/01 & SEP 2009/000041156 30.4.09 EXAM'D 7.08 IN 5003.247N, 0541.999W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 1.31 IN GEN DEPTH 3.01MTRS. SCOUR 0.3MTR DEEP. MAIN ITEM (BOILER) LENGTH 19.1MTRS, WIDTH 3.8MTRS, HT 2.1MTRS. LIES 043/233 DEGS. MAINLY BURIED WITH ONLY THE PROMINENT BOILER AND THE TOP OF THE ENGINE ABOVE SEABED. QUOTED POSN IS THE TOP OF THE BOILER AND IS THE LEAST DEPTH. (NETSURVEY, HI 1246). INS AS WK 1.3MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ONLY BOILER & ENGINE ABOVE SEABED

Position: 50 3.247 N,5 41.999 W

 

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