This is the information page about the shipwreck Baltanglia, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 32.925 N,1 28.208 W (55.295866666667, -1.17345)

 

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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. Acclivity
2. Aepos
3. Albano
4. Alert (possibly)
5. Annie walker (probably)
6. Arbutus
7. Athelduke
8. Auckland castle
9. Aulton (possibly)
10. Baltanglia
11. Buka
12. Bullger
13. Chris christenson
14. Coquet mouth
15. Cor jesu (possibly)
16. Coryton
17. Don (possibly)
18. Driebergen
19. Dutchman
20. Eglinton
21. Elziena
22. Elziena (possibly)
23. Emily reaich
24. Emma
25. Espire
26. Everene (possibly)
27. Fingal
28. Florence dombey (possibly)
29. George and mary (possibly)
30. Hazard (probably)
31. Heros (possibly)
32. Hesvik (possibly)
33. Hms ascot
34. Hms herring
35. Hms kopanes
36. Hms patia
37. Hooghammen
38. Hornchurch (probably)
39. Igor
40. Invergyle
41. Isbul & margarit
42. Jan van ryswyck
43. Lafonia
44. Lunesdale (possibly)
45. Maystone (possibly)
46. Merwede
47. Morlaix (probably)
48. Nidelven
49. Ocean venture
50. Olimpia/?olympia (possibly)
51. Peik (probably)
52. Pluto
53. Provider a
54. Queen wilhelmina
55. Regian
56. Rising sun
57. Skovdal (probably)
58. Snowdonia
59. Somali
60. Spey (possibly)
61. Sphynx
62. St andre
63. St fergus
64. Svava
65. Tadorne
66. The tetrarch (probably)
67. Thistle
68. Thomas jackson (possibly)
69. Tioga
70. U 1274
71. Ub 115 (possibly)
72. Upcerne
73. Wearsider

 

Name: BALTANGLIA

Length 77.9 meter, width: 12 meter, draught: 6, tonnage 1523 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: ex- langford (1923), ex- laatefos (1921), built in 1921 by ardrossan dd & sb co., with two boilers, triple expansion engine of 203nhp, single shaft. machinery by j.g. kincaid & co. ltd., greenock. owned at time of loss by anglo-lithuanian shipping co. ltd. passage homelvik for the tyne and rochester. torpedoed and sunk by u 19 6m e of beadnell, while part of convoy an-5186. master thought the vessel had been mined. crew all saved. (sibi & r young)

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 59 meter, Height above seabed: 173 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2008

Details measurements/cartography: H056/40 H056/40 POSN 553324N, 012830W. (LLOYDS). NCA. HH090/843/01 21.12.99 HH090/843/01 21.12.99 EXAM'D 29.6.99 IN 5532.925N, 0128.208W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 51.6 IN GEN DEPTH 59MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 77MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS. DCS3 HT 7.9MTRS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. REASONABLY INTACT. SUPERSTRUCTURE VISIBLE ON DCS3 INCLUDING THE CENTRE ACCOMMODATION. UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 843). INS AS WK 51MTRS. BR STD. 22.6.00 22.6.00 DIVED IN JUNE 2000. WK IS BROKEN UP AND WELL COLLAPSED. (R YOUNG, TELECON, 22.6.00). NCA. 27.7.00 27.7.00 DIVED AGAIN. A SUBSTANTIAL WK, SOME 8-9MTRS HIGH. MAINLY CONSISTS OF GIRDERS BUT A STEEL, BOX LIKE, STRUCTURE OCCUPIES THE CENTRE OF THE WK. HAS A CARGO OF WHAT APPEAR TO BE STACKED, RUBBER-LIKE TILES. (R YOUNG, TELECON, 27.7.00). NCA. 7.10.08 7.10.08 DIVED BY ANDY ANDERSON, BISHOP AUCKLAND DIVER. BELL RECOVERED INSCRIBED "LAATEFOS 1921", THE ORIGINAL NAME OF BALTANGLIA. (R YOUNG, E-MAIL 5.10.08)
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT & UPRIGHT

Position: 55 32.925 N,1 28.208 W

 

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