This is the information page about the shipwreck Chelydra (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 5.234 N,4 4.736 W (50.087233, -4.078933)

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: CHELYDRA (POSSIBLY)

Length 79.3 meter, width: 10.8 meter, draught: 5.7, tonnage 1760 ton
Load: grain

Cause: built in 1883 by strand slipway co, sunderland. owned at time of loss by g hutchinson. two boilers, compound expansion engine of 140nhp, single shaft. machinery by ne marine engineering co, sunderland. passage kobe for bremerhaven. foundered in nw force 4 following collision with noregian barque holmestrand, on passage for newport in ballast. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1972

Water depth above wreck: 69 meter, Height above seabed: 50 cm

Known since: 1972, last detected: 2006

Details measurements/cartography: LOST 14 MILES SE OF EDDYSTONE. (SIBI). GIVES 500100N, 040000W. H3110/72 8.1.73 WK IN 505012.5N, 040439.7W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. GOOD SONAR CONTACT FROM E IN SANDWAVE AREA. GOOD E/S TRACE 60.0MTRS IN 68.0MTRS. SEABED OF FINE SAND, BROKEN SHELL & MUD. NO SCOUR. PROBABLY WK OF 'TREGENNA' [17473] OR 'BENITO' [17456]. (HMS HECATE, 1972). NC 1267. H2979/74 18.2.76 FISHERMENS FASTENER IN 500517N, 040445W [OGB] USING DECCA. (E GILES, 29.1.76). NCA. H1280/76/31 22.4.76 FISHERMENS FASTENER IN 500517N, 040438W [OGB] USING DECCA. (LTR DATED 29.1.76 REFERS). NCA. H4514/76 15.9.76 WK KNOWN AS 'DRAGMEA' IN 500517N, 040438W [OGB] USING DECCA. WK WAS FOUND 9.4.76 AT 1200HRS WHILE DRIFTING WNW/ESE DURING FISHING TRIP. DEPTH TO SEABED 37FMS (U/C) BY E/S. DEPTH WK NOT SHOWN ON TRACE & TRACE NOT MARKED FOR PHASE. WK STANDS APPROX 25FT HIGH. (T ALLEN, 9.9.76). CHART AS WK 56MTRS BUT RETAIN HMS HECATE'S 1972 HIFIX POSN. BR STD. HH091/059/01 9.5.05 EXAM'D 25.7.04 IN 5005.234N, 0404.736W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 60.9 IN GEN DEPTH 69.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 80MTRS, WIDTH 16.9MTRS, HT 8.6MTRS. LIES 050/230 DEGS WITH BOWS TOWARDS 230 DEGS. INTACT, COLLAPSED. (GARDLINE, HI 1059). AMEND WK 60MTRS. BR STD. 13.67.06 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. THIS IS AN EARLY SS OF ABOUND 1890S BUILD, WITH TWO BOILERS AND A COMPOUND EXPANSION ENGINE. GROSS TONNAGE WOULD BE APPROX 1000 TONS. BOTH FWD AND AFTER SECTIONS ARE WELL-BROKEN DOWN, THE HIGHEST POINT BEING THE MACHINERY. A SINGLE PROP IS STILL IN SITU. COULD BE 'LILIE' (1089GT) OR 'CHELDRA' (1760 GT). (N R CHIPCHASE & A BOXALL). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, COLLAPSED, BOWS SW

Position: 50 5.234 N,4 4.736 W

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