This is the information page about the shipwreck Chrysopolis, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 39.514 N,3 3.481 W (53.658567, -3.058017)

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: CHRYSOPOLIS

Length 95.7 meter, width: 12.5 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 2931 ton
Load: non-ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore

Cause: ex-straits of dover. built in 1892 by irvine & co, west hartlepool owned at time of loss by the italian government. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 244nhp, single shaft. passage cartagena for garston. ran ashore in ribble estuary. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1931

Water depth above wreck: -2 meter

Known since: 1931, last detected: 1989

Details measurements/cartography: H3803/31 H3803/31 POSN 533924N, 030350W. INS B CONL BUOY 'WRECK' IN 533924N, 030350W. NC 1981. 16.11.51 16.11.51 INS AS DW WITH G CONL BUOY. NC 1981. H5533/52 16.9.52 H5533/52 16.9.52 WRECK BUOY REPD SUNK AND CONSIDERABLE SHOALING REPD CLOSE TO WRECK. (MERSEY DKS & HBR BOARD). H1797/56 23.11.56 H1797/56 23.11.56 WRECK IS REPD TO HAVE PRACTICALLY DISAPPEARED. (RIBBLE NAVN & TH). DELETE BUOY.

- NM 2871/56. H3542/68 14.10.68 H3542/68 14.10.68 BELIEVED TO THE IRON BARQUE MEXICO CITY. A CLOSE INSPECTION SHOWED AN IRON HULL ABOUT A QUARTER SUNK INTO THE SANDY SEABED. BEYOND THE RIBS & SOME PLATING PLUS CROSS MEMBERS, THE WRECK HAS BEEN STRIPPED, THE HIGHEST PART BEING ABOUT 12FT ABOVE THE SEABED. LENGTH OF WRECKAGE WAS 100FT AND WAS IN AN ADVANCED STATE OF CORROSION. IT WAS NOTED THAT THE WRECK IS USED BY THE LOCALS TO CATCH SHRIMPS AT LOW TIDE. WRECK VISITED 29.7.68. (IND UNRWTR ENTRS LTD REPORT DTD 9.10.68). AMEND TO WK DRIES 10FT. BR STD. 8.10.76 8.10.76 AMEND TO ST DRIES 3.1MTRS. NC 1981. H1270/85 18.6.87 H1270/85 18.6.87 ST APPEARS BROKEN UP & COVERED WITH SAND. (PHOTOGRAPHY DTD 21/6/86). DELETE DRYING HT. 28.4.89 28.4.89 AERIAL PHOT PG 1862/1-LP1, DTD 21.6.86, SHOWS DWP IN POSN 533930N, 030324W. AMEND TO DWP IN REVISED POSN. NE 1981.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 39.514 N,3 3.481 W

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