Wreck: Bear (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Bear, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 55.361 N,2 7.602 W (55.922683, -2.126700)
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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.
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Shipwreck details
Name: BEAR
Length 53.1 meter, width: 7.8 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 593 ton
Load: animals (land & sea) and birds,ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined
Cause: built in 1877 by sir raylton dixon & co, middlesbrough. onwed at time of loss by j watson & co. one boiler, compound inverted engine of 80hp, single shaft. passage middlesbrough for grangemouth. cargo cast iron. foundered following collision. (sibi).
Year of registration: 2001
Water depth above wreck: 69 meter, Height above seabed: 136 cm
Known since: 2001, last detected: 20200409
Details measurements/cartography: HH090/915/01 15.1.02 EXAM'D 26.5.01 IN 5555.360N, 0207.596W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 63.6 IN GEN DEPTH 69MTRS. SCOUR <0.5MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 10MTRS TOWARDS 110 DEGS FROM THE STERN. LENGTH 53MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS. DCS3 HT 5.6MTRS. LIES 131/313DEGS WITH BOWS 313 DEGS. DEBRIS EXTENDS 37MTRS TOWARDS 120 DEGS. INTACT AND UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 915). BR STD. HH100/351/19 28.4.03 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. CONFIRMED AS THE WK OF SS BEAR, SANK 1891. WK IS UPRIGHT AND PROTRUDING 6MTRS FROM THE SEABED. (R COVENTRY, EMAIL DTD 24.4.03). NCA. SEP 2021/000090526 1.4.21 EXAM'D 9.4.20 IN 5555.361N, 0207.602W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 63.61MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 69MTRS, LENGTH 59MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS, HT 5.4MTRS, ORIENTATION 136/316 DEGS. WK INTACT AND UPRIGHT. (MERITAITO, HI1591). AMEND NDW 63MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT
Position: 55 55.361 N,2 7.602 W
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