This is the information page about the shipwreck Belvoir castle (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 57 16.921 N,1 33.451 W (57.4531, -1.7967)

 

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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. Adventure (probably)
2. Annemieke
3. Atland
4. Bel lily
5. Belvoir castle (probably)
6. Ben tarbet
7. Cairnavon
8. Constant star
9. Emperor (possibly)
10. Ennismore (possibly)
11. Hms flotta (possibly)
12. Hms ormonde
13. Integrity
14. Jacqueline
15. Magician
16. Maria w
17. Mercator (probably)
18. Muriel
19. Ocean herald ii
20. Our merit (possibly)
21. Prince of wales (possibly)
22. Saint magnus
23. St clement (possibly)
24. Stella marie (possibly)
25. U 1206 (probably)
26. Windward ho (possibly)
27. Xenia
28. Zitella

 

Name: BELVOIR CASTLE (PROBABLY)

Length 37.4 meter, width: 6.6 meter, draught: 3.5, tonnage 221 ton

Cause: built in 1899 by gourlay bros & co, dundee. owned at time of loss by w w crapin, grimsby. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 58nhp, single shaft. sunk by u-boat with scuttling charges. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 82 meter, Height above seabed: 105 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2010

Details measurements/cartography: 16.8.72 SUNK 15 MILES SE 1/2 E OF BUCHAN NESS. (GRIMSBY LOSS LIST). POSN PA 571700N, 013000W. NCA. SEP 2009/000128360 21.9.09 WK LOCATED IN 5716.921N, 0133.452W [WGD] USING DGPS. STANDS APPROX 3.7MTRS HIGH IN GEN DEPTH 82MTRS. (MV VIGILANT, GARDLINE GEOSURVEY, HN FOR HI 1155). INS AS WK USC 77MTRS.

- NM 5502P/09. HH091/155/01 2.3.10 EXAM'D 11.9.09 IN 5716.921N, 0133.451W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 79.25 IN GEN DEPTH 82.9MTR. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 32MTRS, WIDTH 7MTRS, HT 3.7MTRS. LIES 105/285 DEGS. POOR MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT. (GARDLINE HYDRO, HI 1155). PROBABLY INVERTED, BOWS SE. INS AS WK 79MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2010/000027978 16.3.10 RE-ISSUED AS NM 1557P/10, BUT DEPTH STILL GIVEN AS 77MTRS. SEP 2010/000098684 24.6.10 INS WK 79MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2010/000204603 10.12.10 INS AS WK 77MTRS BY NM.

- NM 6297/10.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, ?INVERTED, BOWS SE

Position: 57 16.921 N,1 33.451 W

 

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