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 (50.054117, -5.699983)

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: 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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