This is the information page about the shipwreck Begona no 5, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 36.14 N,1 59.774 E (52.437016666667, 1.7918333333333)

 

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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. Abeona
2. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
3. Ala
4. Alto (possibly)
5. Astrologer
6. Atle
7. Avonwood
8. Axminster (probably)
9. Barkis
10. Barrhill
11. Begona no 5
12. Blacktoft (possibly)
13. Bob read (probably)
14. Boulderpool (after part)
15. Bovey tracy
16. Boy karl
17. Burtonia (possibly)
18. Bygdo (possibly)
19. Castle galleon
20. Cd 14 (probably)
21. City of kobe
22. Claudia (possibly)
23. Corbrook
24. Cormead
25. Crichtoun
26. Cross sand ltv
27. Daisy (possibly)
28. David b summers
29. Db 8 (possibly)
30. Django
31. Dronning maud (possibly)
32. El dorado
33. Elnet
34. English trader
35. Ethel radcliffe
36. Excellenz mehnert
37. Fidelio
38. Frumenton
39. G and e (possibly)
40. Galatea (possibly)
41. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
42. Gasfire
43. Geneva
44. George fisher
45. Georgia (for'd part)
46. Glen derry (probably)
47. Glen tilt (possibly)
48. Glynn
49. Goodwood (possibly)
50. Groenlo
51. Gulf breaker
52. H h petersen
53. Hamsterley
54. Helena
55. Hms agate
56. Hms bracklyn (possibly)
57. Hms cantatrice
58. Hms christopher (possibly)
59. Hms condor (probably)
60. Hms dhoon (probably)
61. Hms donside (possibly)
62. Hms evesham (possibly)
63. Hms exmoor
64. Hms fontenoy
65. Hms force
66. Hms glen prosen
67. Hms harvest gleaner
68. Hms irvana (part of)
69. Hms jessie nutten
70. Hms kaphreda
71. Hms m a west (probably)
72. Hms ocean plough (possibly)
73. Hms orthos (probably)
74. Hms pelton (probably)
75. Hms speeton (possibly)
76. Hms spider
77. Hms tettenhall
78. Hms tonbridge
79. Hms tugela
80. Hms washington (probably)
81. Hmsm d5
82. Horseferry (probably)
83. Impulsion
84. Ionian (probably)
85. Kenneth hawksfield
86. Kentwood (probably)
87. Knitsley (part of)(probably)
88. Knitsley (possibly)
89. La perouse (possibly)
90. Langeli (possibly)
91. Leelite
92. Leopold ii
93. Liliane (possibly)
94. Lindisfarne (probably)
95. Lingfield
96. Mardyke
97. Maria rosa
98. Marianne (probably)
99. Marsworth
100. Mascota (possibly)
101. Memento (possibly)
102. Merchant
103. Mercurius
104. Meriones
105. Mirella
106. Montferland
107. Mudo
108. Murdoch (probably)
109. Nadir
110. Navarra (possibly)
111. Nereus
112. Newland (possibly)
113. Nominoe
114. Nordborg (possibly)
115. Novocastrian
116. Oil trader
117. Onto
118. Osprey
119. Otis tarda
120. Oxshott (possibly)
121. Philipp m
122. Pluton
123. Polaris
124. Prima
125. Regain
126. Ren
127. Reward (possibly)
128. Rhineland
129. Robin iv
130. Robrix
131. Rochester city
132. Rogate
133. Roine
134. Rokos vergottis
135. Roxanna
136. Rye
137. Scotia
138. Sea rhine
139. Seagull
140. Silksworth hall (probably).
141. Sir william stephenson
142. Sirdar (part of)(possibly)
143. Skodsburg (possibly)
144. Southford
145. St patrick
146. Stad alkmaar
147. Stanmount
148. Sunniside (probably)
149. Taber park
150. Thomas m (possibly)
151. Tidal (possibly)
152. Togston
153. Tregantle (possibly)
154. Trevethoe
155. Tunisiana
156. U 13 (probably)
157. Uc 62 (possibly)
158. Ui-001
159. Vanguard
160. Vigo
161. Viola (possibly)
162. Virgilia
163. War mehtar
164. War valley
165. White swan
166. White swan (possibly)
167. Willowpool
168. Xanthe
169. Yewvalley (possibly)
170. Yucca (possibly)

 

Name: BEGONA NO 5

Length 87.2 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 7.9, tonnage 1967 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-teodore, ex-vincente, ex-carise, ex-carmen roca, ex-emma k, ex-gambia, ex-shieik. built in 1880 by c mitchess & co, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by j m & g a de urquijo. two boilers, compound expansion engine of 214hp, single shaft. machinery by the wallsend slipway co. passage blyth for marseille. cargo coal. sank on fire after collision with 'el dorado'.

Year of registration: 1923

Water depth above wreck: 27 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1923, last detected: 2015

Details measurements/cartography: H4989/23 20.7.23 INS DW AND BUOY IN 523618N, 015910E. (TH NM 47). H4989/23 17.9.23 PRESUMED TO BE BEGONA IN 523610N, 015930. GORLESTON CHURCH 260.5 DEGS 9.85M. (YARMOUTH AND TH 68/23). H7769/23 12.11.23 LT BUOY WITHDRAWN. LEAST DEPTH 50FT [LWST]. 3.5M SSE OF CROSS SAND LT VESSEL. (TH, 16.11.23). AMEND TO WK 8.25FMS & DELETE BUOY. (TH). H336/31 27.8.51 EXAM'D IN 523608N, 015945E USING HSA. SWEPT CLEAR 47FT, FOUL 49FT. LEAST E/S 61FT. HEIGHT ABOVE SEABED 37FT. SEABED 84FT. LYING 050/230 DEGS BETWEEN TWO BANKS. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 20.8.51). AMEND TO SW 7FMS 5FT. BR STD. H6285/69 26.1.70 LOCATED IN 523615N, 015955E USING DECCA. (KELVIN HUGHES). H4629/71 22.12.71 EYE-WITNESS STATES THAT SHIP SANK ON FIRE FROM STEM TO STERN. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE & APPEARS TO HAVE HAD SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS. SCOUR LESS THAN 4FT ON BOTH SIDES OF WRECK WHICH APPEARS TO BE SLOWLY SINKING IN LARGE DEPRESSION. (E GILES, 22.11.71). H4629/71 24.4.72 POSN 523612N, 015953E USING TRANSPONDER. LEAST DEPTH 18.7MTRS. (NETH HO, 14.4.72). NCA. 30.7.74 AMEND TO SW 14MTRS [LAT]. NC 1543. H1942/80 6.9.82 EXAM'D 27.2.82 IN 523607N, 015955E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 18.5 IN GEN DEPTH 24MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 0.5MTRS. HYDROSEARCH VERTICAL HT 10.3MTRS, LENGTH 90.9 MTRS, BEAM 13MTRS. LYING WITH LIST TO STBD. GANTRIES VISIBLE ON SONAR FOR'D. BOWS NE. MAST LIES ALONGSIDE AND CABLE IS STREWN ON SEABED TO NE OF WK. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 11). RETAIN SWEPT DEPTH. NCA. HH090/616/01 24.10.94 EXAM'D 8.7.94 IN 523606.8N, 015953.0E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [3 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 19.3, FOUL 19.6MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 19.7 IN GEN DEPTH 26.0MTRS. SCOUR 1-3MTRS. DCS3 HT 7.3MTRS. LENGTH 90MTRS, WIDTH 16MTRS. LIES 035/215 DEGS. APPEARS TO BE LYING ON SIDE. (GARDLINE, HI 616). BR STD. SEP 2014/000101130 2.1.15 EXAM'D 25.7.14 IN 5236.140N, 0159.774E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 19.29 IN GEN DEPTH 27MTRS. SCOUR 2.5MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 30MTRS TOWARDS 000 DEGS. LENGTH 86MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS, HT 7.2MTRS. LIES 045/225 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. DEGRADED AND PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY, HI 1428). AMEND WK 19.2MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, BOWS NE, LIST TO STBD

Position: 52 36.14 N,1 59.774 E

 

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