This is the information page about the shipwreck Carare, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 17.628 N,3 44.777 W (51.21105, -3.4662333333333)

 

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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. Cabenda
2. Carare
3. Cato (possibly)
4. Delfin
5. Fort medine
6. G a savage (possibly)
7. Gleneuse
8. Hms princess
9. Inverdargle (bow section) (probably)
10. Inverdargle (stern section) (probably)
11. James mcgee
12. Kendy
13. Lamb?
14. Madjoe
15. Malleny (or malleney)
16. Malleny (or malleney)
17. Morning star (possibly).
18. Plantes welvard (possibly)
19. Portugalete (probably).
20. Riptide
21. Riverton (stern portion) (possibly)
22. Samtampa
23. Scarweather ltv
24. Sirdar
25. Slava
26. Stalheim
27. Stanholme
28. Steepholm
29. Steepholm
30. Strombus (part of)
31. Strombus (part of)
32. Strombus (part of)
33. Strombus (part of)(probably)
34. The american

 

Name: CARARE

Length 129.5 meter, width: 16.8 meter, draught: 9.1, tonnage 6878 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1925 by cammel, larid & co ltd, birkenhead. owned at time of loss by elders & fyffes ltd. five boilers, twin triple expansion engines of 622nhp, twin shaft. passage avonmouth for santa marta, columbia via kingston, jamaica. sunk by german aerial laid magnetic mine. 7 crew and 3 passengers lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 24 meter, Height above seabed: 137 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2010

Details measurements/cartography: H0513/40 29.5.40 SUNK IN 511730N, 034500W. MASTS SHOW AT HW. (FOIC CARDIFF & CROYDE CG). INS AS DW. - PFNM 1400/40. H0513/40 28.6.40 G CON BUOY, GPFL(3) G 10S, ESTABLISHED 5 CABLES N OF WK. (ADMIRALTY).

- NM 1676T/40. H0513/40 9.8.40 INS DW.

- NM 2071/40. H0513/40 19.8.40 INS G CON BUOY, GPFL(3) G, 2 CABLES N OF WK. - TFNM 2072/40. H0513/40 17.11.41 INS BUOY.

- NM 2705/41. H0513/40 14.12.49 WK IN 511736N, 034445W DISPERSED TO 47FT. BUOY WITHDRAWN. (HMS SEAGULL, 30.11.49 & TH 7.12.49). AMEND TO WK 7FMS 5FT.

- NM 2681/49. H5293/71 24.1.72 AMEND TO WK 14.3MTRS. NC 1165. H1948/76 5.3.81 EXAM'D 18.6.80 IN 511737N, 034446W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 21.5 IN GEN DEPTH 27MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 10.8MTRS. LYING 150/330 DEGS, GIVING IMPRESSION OF BEING A LARGE ROCK OUTCROP. (HMS WOODLARK, HI 70A/79). AMEND TO WK 16.2MTRS. BR STD. H2931/88 19.4.88 LOCATED AND PURCHASED BY ILFRACOMBE SUB AQUA CLUB. (W DAILY PRESS 23.3.88). HH100/351/05 16.4.92 DIVED IN 511753N, 034449W USING DECCA. WK IS DECAYING AND HAS MASSIVE 'OVERHANGS'. DIVERS SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS. (J HEWITT, 20.3.92). NCA. 27.1.12 LOCATED 22.6.10 IN 5117.628N, 0344.777W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 20.43 IN GEN DEPTH 24.1MTRS. SCOUR 1.5MTRS DEEP. LENGTH 132.0MTRS, WIDTH 21.8MTRS, HT 5.17MTRS. LIES 137/317 DEGS WITH BOWS SE. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (FUGRO OSEA, HI 1327). INTACT. AMEND WK 20.0MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT

Position: 51 17.628 N,3 44.777 W

 

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