This is the information page about the shipwreck Calcium (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 25.686 N,3 30.033 W (53.615283333333, -3.42905)

 

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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. ? susie mo ii
2. Alarm
3. Albion (probably)
4. Alcides
5. Angola
6. Angola (part of)(possibly)
7. Ann sumner
8. Ant
9. Auchenarden
10. Auspicious
11. Ben cruachan
12. Berwyn
13. Blairnevis
14. Braeglen
15. Burbo & tongue bns (remains) (possibly)
16. Burbo & tongue bns (remains) (possibly)
17. Burbo tower (remains)
18. Burbo tower (remains)
19. Burbo tower (remains)
20. Burbo tower (remains)
21. Cairnross
22. Calcium (probably)
23. Caroline
24. Chacabuco (possibly)
25. Chagres
26. City of brussels
27. City of st andrews
28. Colin russell
29. Concord
30. Counsellor iii
31. Denbigh coast
32. Dublin
33. Dunmail
34. Ebeneezer
35. El oso
36. Ellan vannin
37. Ellen southwold
38. Eversfield
39. Fb 110 (possibly)
40. Fb 112 (possibly)
41. Fb 116 (possibly)
42. Fb 118 (possibly)
43. Fb 265 (possibly)
44. Fb 267 (possibly)
45. Fb 275 (possibly)
46. Fb 278 (possibly)
47. Fb 289 and 292 (probably)
48. Fb 295 (possibly)
49. Fb 296 (possibly)
50. Fb 297 (possibly)
51. Fb 300 (possibly)
52. Fb 43 (possibly)
53. Fb 47 (possibly)
54. Fb 56 (possibly)
55. Fb 72 (possibly)
56. Fb 83 (possibly)
57. Fb 86 (possibly)
58. Fb 98 (probably)
59. Four brothers (possibly)
60. Gannochy
61. Gorsethorn
62. Hannah
63. Hebe (possibly)
64. Heron 2
65. Horizon (possibly)
66. India
67. J b kee
68. John pierce
69. Kilcoan (probably)
70. Lelia
71. Letty
72. Linda blanche
73. Little burbo beacon
74. Lugar
75. Mancunium
76. Margaret
77. Mary
78. Mermaid (probably)
79. Mersey
80. Mid jordan beacon
81. Munster
82. Nestos
83. Nicola faith
84. North jordan bn
85. Ocean home
86. Ocean monarch
87. Penrhos (probably)
88. Penstone
89. Perseverance
90. Peru (probably)
91. Princess victoria
92. Queen
93. Queens tower
94. Rea 1
95. Rea 10
96. Rea 5
97. Rea 7 (possibly)
98. Rea 8 (possibly)
99. Rea 9 (possibly)
100. Residu
101. Resurgam
102. Rhosneigr
103. Robert marsden
104. Robert seymour
105. Speke (possibly)
106. Stanleigh
107. Stonedale 2 (possibly)
108. Sunda
109. Talbot
110. Thomas
111. Thomas
112. Thorn
113. Tongue beacon
114. Tongue beacon (possibly)
115. Tower base
116. Tt 6 (possibly)
117. Valeria
118. Vine (possibly)
119. Walter dean
120. Ystroom (probably)

 

Name: CALCIUM (PROBABLY)

Length 55 meter, width: 8.6 meter, draught: 3.3, tonnage 613 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1918 by g brown & co, greenock with one boiler, triple expansion engine of 81nhp, single shaft. owned at time of loss by united alkali co ltd (ici). passage fleetwood for llandulais. mined. taken in tow by sodium, another stone boat, in the hope of making liverpool. sank approx 9m e of where she struck the mine. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 11 meter, Height above seabed: 80 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 20190106

Details measurements/cartography: H01044/40 SUNK IN 532500N, 034500W APPROX. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H2823/50 21.6.51 SEARCHED FOR BUT NOT FOUND BY HMS FRANKLIN. (NOIC, LIVERPOOL, MAY '51). H1893/64 12.12.69 WK LOCATED IN 532536N, 033000W. LEAST DEPTH 5FMS. (HMS WOODLARK, SIGNAL DTD 12.11.64). INS AS WK 5FMS.

- NM 1976/69. H1893/64 3.2.70 EXAMINED IN 532641N, 033000W [OGB] USING HIFIX/3 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 9.2 IN GEN DEPTH 11.5MTRS. SCOUR 0.5MTR. LENGTH ABOUT 200-250FT. LYING APPROX 110/290DEGS. SMALLER DETACHED PIECE OF WRECKAGE ABOUT 350FT TO THE NW. (HMS WOODLARK, HI 22(A)/69). AMEND POSN. BR STD. 1.4.74 AMEND TO WK 8.6MTRS [LAT]. NC 1978. H1310/80 31.1.80 WK LIES E/W WITH BOWS E. BOW SECTION IS UPSIDE DOWN AND IN ONE PIECE. FROM ABOUT 20MTRS AFT FROM BOW THE WK IS VERY BROKEN UP. NO SCOUR. (P ROBINSON, RHUDDLAN). HH100/351/01 22.11.89 DIVED ON 10.9.89 IN 532544N, 033000W [OGB]. WELL BROKEN UP AMIDSHIPS. BOW SECTION, ABOUT 50-60FT LONG, BROKEN OFF AND UPSIDE DOWN AND STANDS SOME 5MTRS HIGH. STERN APPEARS TO BE MISSING. APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A SMALL TANKER. LIES NE/SW. (K HURLEY, 23.10.89). HH100/351/06 29.3.93 THOUGHT TO BE WK OF CALCIUM, COMPARES WELL WITH PHOTOGRAPH IN 'UNKNOWN SHIPWRECKS AROUND BRITIAIN'. TWO STOCKLESS ANCHORS VISIBLE. LIES IN 532541.5N, 033002W [OGB]. POSN FROM GPS. BROKEN IN TWO WITH BOILERS EXPOSED. BOW TO BRIDGE IS COMPLETELY UPSIDE DOWN AND ABOUT 15DEG FROM THE VERTICAL. BRIDGE SECTION LIES ON PORT SIDE. (C HOLDEN, 27.3.93). HH090/759/01 12.11.97 EXAMINED 27.9.97 IN 532541.2N, 033002.1W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 8.6 IN GEN DEPTH 11MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 1.4MTRS. DCS3 HT 2.1MTRS. COVERS 50MTRS BY 40MTRS. LIES 080/260DEGS. PARTIALLY BROKEN UP. (HMSML GLEANER, HI 759). RETAIN AS WK 8.6MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.POSITIONS BELOW THIS POINT ARE IN DEGREES, MINUTES AND DECIMALS OF A MINUTE HH100/351/14 12.3.99 BOW IS INVERTED AND SEPARATED FROM THE STERN. STERN IS ON ITS PORT SIDE WITH A BOILER PROTRUDING FROM STBD. BETWEEN THE BOW AND STERN IS A LARGE AREA OF DEBRIS. (A PARRY, LTR DTD 8.3.99). SEP 2018/000313290 8.9.19 EXAMINED 6.1.19 IN 5325.686N, 0330.033W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 7.55MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 11MTRS. LENGTH 55.9MTRS, WIDTH 14.0MTRS, HT 4.8MTRS. ORIENTATION 080/260 DEGS. PARTIALLY BROKEN UP. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI 1572). AMEND TO DW 7.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: TWO MAIN PARTS, BOW INVERTED, STERN ON SIDE. BOILER AND OTHER STRUCTURE/PARTS CLEARLY VISIBLE.

Position: 53 25.686 N,3 30.033 W

 

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