This is the information page about the shipwreck Battersea, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 26.97 N,0 22.757 W (54.449500, -0.379283)

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: BATTERSEA

Length 65.5 meter, width: 9.8 meter, draught: 4.7, tonnage 860 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1902 by w dobson & co, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by the gas light & coke co. single boiler, triple expansion engine of 112hp, single shaft. machinery by ne marine engine co, newcastle-upon-tyne. passage newcastle-upon-tyne for london. cargo coal. foundered after collision with the newcastle registered ss walton. one man lost.

Year of registration: 1975

Water depth above wreck: 51 meter, Height above seabed: 80 cm

Known since: 1975, last detected: 20161214

Details measurements/cartography: H4069/72 4.12.75 LOCATED IN 542703N, 002226W USING DECCA. NO 'ON TOP' SOUNDING OBTAINED. (RISDON BEAZLEY MARINE LTD, HN 13.11.75). INS AS USC 28MTRS. BR STD. H6331/87 25.1.89 EXAM'D 5.7.88 IN 542658N, 002239W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 46 IN GEN DEPTH 52MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 6.6-7.0MTRS. LIES 280/100DEG, UPRIGHT AND IN ONE PIECE. HIGH POINT, POSSIBLY A MAST, AMIDSHIPS. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). AMEND TO WK 45MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/17 27.4.01 DIVED IN 1999. POSITIVELY IDENTIFED AS BATTERSEA BY THE BELL. UPRIGHT AND ON AN EVEN KEEL. INTACT FROM STERN TO MIDSHIPS. FROM BRIDGE FWD TO THE BOW THE WK IS COLLAPSED. SINGLE BOILER AND ENGINE. ENGINE ROOM IS VERY INTACT WITH CATWALKS AND DECKING STILL IN PLACE. (A C JACKSON/C A RACEY). NCA. SEP 2017/000002822 23.5.17 EXAM'D 14.12.16 IN 5426.970N, 0022.757W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 46.58MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 51MTRS. LENGTH 64.5MTRS, WIDTH 9.8MTRS, HT 5.77MTRS, ORIENTATION 080/260 DEGS. WK APPEARS UPRIGHT AND INTACT. (MMT, HI 1491). AMEND NDW 46MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, INTACT, FWD PART COLLAPSED

Position: 54 26.97 N,0 22.757 W

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