This is the information page about the shipwreck Calderon, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 31.451 N,3 7.689 W (53.524183, -3.128150)

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: CALDERON

Length 115.2 meter, width: 14.3 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 4080 ton
Load: machinery and mechanical parts,ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,clay products

Cause: built in 1900 by workman clark & co, belfast. owned at time of loss by lamport & holt, liverpool. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 534nhp, single shaft. passage from manchester. was struck in crosby channel by ss musketeer and cut in two. sank about 317yds about se 1/2 e (mag) of the new posn of c2 red con buoy. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1912

Water depth above wreck: 12 meter, Height above seabed: 98 cm

Known since: 1912, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: 31.8.1912 DISPERSED BY MDHB BETWEEN FEB 1912 AND 31.8.1912 11.5.50 WK LOCATED. DEPTH BY LEADLINE 34FT 6IN. DEPTH 32FT BELOW LBD. (LIVERPOOL WK RECORDS). SHOWN ON 1951 AS WK 5FMS 2FT. 1.4.74 INS WK 9.1MTRS [LAT] NC 1951. 25.3.75 AMEND TO WK 9.3MTRS [LAT] IN 533126N, 03 0741.5W [OGB]. (K3500/KF NO 10). NC 1951. HH091/124/01 10.5.06 EXAM'D 8.1.06 IN 5331.4509N, 0307.6895W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 10.32 IN GEN DEPTH 14.66MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 120MTRS, WIDTH 25MTRS, HT 4.34MTRS. LIES 090/270 DEGS. VERY BROKEN UP. (HMSML GLEANER, HI 1124). AMEND WK 10.3MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. SEP 2020/000222576 5.10.20 EXAM'D BY BDC IN 5331.448N, 0307.659W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 11.13MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 12.1MTRS. LENGTH 49MTRS, WIDTH 13MTRS, HT 0.8MTRS. LIES 098/278 DEGS. NFS. (MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR COMPANY SURVEY, 2020) NFA. SEP 2021/000126174 11.5.21 EXAM’D BY BDC; IN 5331.453N, 0307.690W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 10.9MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 11MTRS, LENGTH 52.7MTRS, WIDTH 20.4MTRS, ORIENTATION 120/300 DEGS. NFS. (MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR COMPANY SURVEY, 2021). NFA. SEP 2020/000222576 17.11.21 EXAM’D BY BDC 6.9.2021. NOT LOCATED IN M/B DATASET (2021). NFS. (MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR COMPANY SURVEY, 2021). NFA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: VERY BROKEN UP

Position: 53 31.451 N,3 7.689 W

Wrecks near the Netherlands
Wrecks near Belgium
Wrecks near Germany
Wrecks near France
Wrecks near Great Britain
Wrecks off Denmark
Wrecks off Sweden
Wrecks off Norway