Wreck: Canada (Motor vessel)

This is the information page about the shipwreck Canada, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 42.337 N,0 6.971 E (53.56915, 0.0936)


 

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Shipwreck details

Name: CANADA

Length 143 meter, width: 19.5 meter, draught: 11, tonnage 11108 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,foodstuffs: solid,grain

Cause: built in 1935 by nakskov skibs a/s nakslov. owned at time of loss by a/s det ostasiatiske kompagi. two 6 cylinder oil engines of 1236hp, twin shaft. machinery by a kt burmeister & wian, copenhagen. passage vancouver for gothnburg & copenhagen. cargo soya and general. mined and later grounded. sank the following day.

Year of registration: 1939

Water depth above wreck: 12 meter, Height above seabed: 40 cm

Known since: 1939, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: H0137/39 17.11.39 ST LIES 124.5DEGS, 3.5M FROM WITHERNSEA LT HO. (TH) GIVES POSN 534216N, 000718E.

- NM 2544/39. H0137/39 20.11.39 ST LIES 116DEGS, 3.6M FROM WITHERNSEA LT HO, MARKED BY G CONL LT BUOY, FL(3)GW10S. (TH).

- NM 2603/39.. H0137/39 5.7.40 LT ON BUOY HAS BEEN EXTINGUISHED. (ADMIRALTY)

- NM 1652/40. H0137/39 14.10.41 BUOY MISSING. (ADMIRALTY).

- NM 2423/41. H01624/44 14.6.44 LOCATED IN 534224N, 000709E. BREAKS IN HEAVY WEATHER. (CAPT M/S HUMBER, 22.5.44). CHART AS DW.

- NM 1213/44. H0137/39 8.4.46 G CONL LT BUOY, FL(3)G10S, LAID 060DEGS, 1C FROM WK. (TH).

- NM 1183/46. H7931/46 13.10.47 SWEPT 3.7.47, IN 534218N, 000702E, BY BEARING AND DISTANCE. DRIES 2FT IN GEN DEPTH 40FT. (HMS SCOTT 1946-47).

- NM 2660/47. H4984/47 18.7.69 REPORTED BLOWN UP BY UNKNOWN DIVERS. (CG FLAMBOROUGH SIGNAL DTD 11.7.69) NCA. 20.3.72 NOW CHARTED AS DW DRIES 1.3MTRS [LAT]. NC 121. H3805/72 28.2.78 LOCATED 30.8.77 AS CHARTED 230DEG, 300YDS FROM WK BUOY, WHICH IS THOUGHT TO BE ABOUT 100YDS N OF CHARTED POSN, BUT LACK OF SUITABLE MARKS MADE PRECISE NAVIGATION DIFFICULT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 2.3MTRS. LYING NE/SW. LENGTH 330FT APPROX. ENTIRE WK NOT SIGHTED, BUT EVIDENT HULL COLLAPSED & PARTLY DISPERSED LEAVING VERY LARGE SECTIONS OF THE STRUCTURE AROUND WK SITE. (HMS MAXTON WRECK REPORT, DTD 5.9.77, UNDER COVER OF SOISS, HI 54/77). CHART AS DW. BR STD. H1944/80 22.4.82 EXAM'D 12.6.81 IN 534217N, 000710E, CALCULATED FROM EXAMINATION PLOT, USING HF. NO E/S ON TOPS OBTAINED BECAUSE OF FISHING FLOATS. HYDROSEARCH VERTICAL HT 11.1MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 12.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. ESTIMATED LEAST DEPTH 1.4MTRS. LIES N/S WITH BOWS TOWARDS N, WITH CABLE RUNNING TO THE SE. BRIDGE STRUCTURE HIGHEST POINT. SONAR LENGTH 157MTRS, BEAM 24.5MTRS. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 12). COMBINE WITH 'GEORIOS' CLOSE E WHEN CHARTING. BR STD. HH242/590/05 31.8.00 SURVEY CARRIED OUT BY THV PATRICIA ON 17-20.8.00 TO OBTAIN CLEARANCE OVER WKS, CANADA AND GEORGIOS. LEAST DEPTH BY WIRE SWEEP, 3.4MTRS WAS LOCATED OVER GEORGIOS [SEE 8880]. PLOT DIAGRAM SHOWS LEAST DEPTH BY E/S OVER CANADA, 4.7MTRS IN 5342.310N, 0006.935E [WGD]. GEN DEPTH 10.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. SEABED SAND, SHELLS AND PEBBLES. (TH, 23.8.00). CHART IN CONJUNCTION WITH WK CLOSE SE AS WKS SW 3.4MTRS.

- NM 3881/00. 5.9.13 EXAM'D 19.5.13 IN 5342.337N, 0006.971E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 5.25 IN GEN DEPTH 12.4MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 149MTRS, WIDTH 18.5MTRS, HT 7.15MTRS. LIES 040/220 DEGS WITH BOWS NE. WELL BROKEN. (NETSURVEY, HI 1401). BOW & MACHINERY MIDSHIPS FORM HIGHEST POINTS. ?MAST STUB AFT OF SUPERSTRUCTURE. RETAIN SW 3.4MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, BOWS NE, BOW & MIDSHIPS HIGH POINTS See Also: 8880

Position: 53 42.337 N,0 6.971 E

 

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