This is the information page about the shipwreck Calchas, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 54.598 N,10 49.855 W (52.000333333333, -11.000666666667)

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: CALCHAS

Length 134.6 meter, width: 16 meter, draught: 9.2, tonnage 6748 ton
Load: foodstuffs: solid

Cause: built in 1899 by scott & co ltd, greenock. owned at time of loss by ocean ss co ltd (a holt). five boilers, triple expansion engine of 521nhp, single shaft. passage new york for liverpool. torpedoed by u-80. no lives lost. (sii).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 126 meter, Height above seabed: 50 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2005

Details measurements/cartography: 23.12.69 SANK 5 MILES W BY S OF TEARAGHT TOR. (LLOYDS, TELECON). ACCEPT 520330N 104815W. 15.5.78 INS AS USCPA 55FMS IN 520330N, 104815W. NE 2679. 4.9.79 AMEND TO USCPA 101MTRS. NC 2679. 5.9.88 THIS WK WAS LOCATED IN 515410N, 105000W IN THE EARLY 1950'S BY RISDON BEAZLEY AND SOME SALVAGE CARRIED OUT. (A C CROTHALL, TELECON). AMEND POSN TO 515410N, 105000W. BR STD. SEP 2007/000039421 30.4.07 WK LOCATED IN 5154.598N, 1049.855W [WGD] USING DGPS. GEN DEPTH 126MTRS. LENGTH 72MTRS, WIDTH 23MTRS, HT 7.9MTRS. (INSS SURVEY 1999-2005). LIE 050/230 DEGS. INTACT WITH SCOUR AT NW END. AMEND WK 117MTRS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 2848/07. 8.2.13 WAS SALVAGED BY RIZDON BEASLEY MARINE LTD IN THE EARLY 1950S AND SOME 269 TONS OF NICKEL WAS SALVAGED. (WARSHIPS, UBOATS & LINERS - INSS 2012).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, SCOUR AT NW END

Position: 51 54.598 N,10 49.855 W

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