This is the information page about the shipwreck Counsellor, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 30.02 N,9 5.54 W (51.300333333333, -9.084)

 

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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. Akassa
2. Alliance ii
3. Alondra
4. Asian
5. Carnarvonshire
6. Carol anne
7. Cliftonian
8. Counsellor
9. Dido
10. Gafsa
11. Ghazee
12. Hazelside
13. Hms alyssum (probably)
14. Hms mignonette
15. Iceland
16. Iwate
17. Joan patricia
18. Kayside
19. Kowloon bridge
20. Ludgate
21. Miami (probably)
22. Minnehaha
23. North star
24. Norwegian
25. Otronto
26. Rona or arona
27. Spes nova
28. Sunlight
29. Tit bonhomme
30. U 260

 

Name: COUNSELLOR

Length 121.9 meter, width: 14.8 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 4958 ton
Load: foodstuffs: solid,wood: unprocessed and products

Cause: built in 1904 by workman, clarke & co ltd, belfast. owned at time of loss by charente ss co ltd, (harrison). two boilers, triple expansion engine of 470 nhp, single shaft. passage san francisco for liverpool. torpedoed by u-79. no lives lost. (sii).

Year of registration: 1916

Water depth above wreck: 35 meter

Known since: 1916, last detected: 1978

Details measurements/cartography: POSN 513000N, 090530W. DEPTH 6.5FMS. - FNM 509/16. H6907/29 SHOWN AS WK 6.5FMS. 21.2.75 POSN 5 MILES W 1/2 S FROM GALLEY HEAD. (WW1SL). H1287/78/300 19.10.78 POSN INVESTIGATED USING MAGNETOMETER, NOTHING LOCATED. LOCAL KNOWLEDGE ALSO INDICATES THAT WK DOES NOT EXIST IN CHARTED POSN. (R LARN 24.8.78). AMEND TO WK PA 6FMS 3FT. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 30.02 N,9 5.54 W

 

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