This is the information page about the shipwreck Balzac, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 35.979 N,0 30.117 W (58.657666666667, -0.335)

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: BALZAC

Length 80.8 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 1720 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built 1913 by nylands voerksted. owned at time of loss by arties bonheur. triple expansion engine of 153 nhp. torpedoed and by submarine off lerwick. passage newcastle for christiana. (ll ww1, dods, ww1sl).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 115 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 1978

Details measurements/cartography: H3039/26 APPROX SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 583600N, 003000W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H3875/26 18.6.26 AMEND TO NDW (1917) (PA). BR STD. H1357/62 27.3.62 AMEND TO NDW PA. NC 1942. 27.9.78 AMEND TO WK USC PA 100 MTRS. (TONNAGE KNOWN). NC 1942.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 35.979 N,0 30.117 W

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