This is the information page about the shipwreck Daybreak (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 25.293 N,5 20.837 W (54.730616666667, -5.3144333333333)

 

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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. Alastor
2. Amber
3. Annagher
4. Arantzazu mendi
5. Archbald finney
6. Audentia
7. Ave maria
8. Betsey / bessy
9. City of mobile
10. Coalman
11. Daybreak (probably)
12. Dunmore
13. Empire tana
14. Enterprise
15. Enterprize (poss)
16. Florrieston (probably)
17. Fredanja (probably)
18. Frieda
19. Fulmar
20. Georgetown victory (part of)
21. Georgetown victory (part of)
22. Green hill (part of)(probably)
23. Harold
24. Helgoland
25. Hunsdon
26. Inverurie
27. Jenemi
28. Karanan
29. Kempock
30. Kilbroney (probably)
31. L'amite
32. Lagan
33. Lagun
34. Leeds city
35. Loch sunart
36. Maja
37. Marianne toft (possibly)
38. Mermaid
39. Neotsfield
40. Peshawur
41. Pins wreck (nimble)
42. Rebecca
43. Rexmoor
44. Rfa industry (probably)
45. Saint barchan
46. Silver quest 2
47. Speedbird
48. St. mungo (possibly)
49. Thornfield
50. Three sisters
51. Tide (probably)
52. Tornamona
53. Ulabrand (possibly)
54. Ulrica
55. Upas
56. W d potts (probably)

 

Name: DAYBREAK (PROBABLY)

Length 103.6 meter, width: 14.9 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 3238 ton
Load: minerals

Cause: built in 1911 by w gray & co ltd, west hartlepool. owned at time of loss by scarisbrick ss co ltd, cardiff. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 330 nhp, single shaft. machinery by central marine engineering co, west hartlepool. passage huelva for glasgow. torpedoed by u-87. 21 men lost. (sii).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 48 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2007

Details measurements/cartography: H8203/19 WK IN 542500N, 052000W (PA) OR 1M E FROM SOUTH ROCK LT VESSEL. (BMVS) H2112/75 4.2.75 WK LOCATED IN 542518N, 052042W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 39 IN GEN DEPTH 48MTRS. SEABED FINE SAND AND BROKEN SHELL. DCS3 HT 13.1MTRS. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 51/74). INS AS WK 35MTRS.

- NM 396/75. 15.1.08 DIVED IN 5425.293N, 0520.837W [WGD]. UPRIGHT AND INTACT WITH THE BRIDGE AREA COLLAPSED. STERN SECTION IS ABOUT 40MTRS DEEP, INCREASING IN DEPTH UNTIL PAST THE BRIDGE AREA AT 55MTRS, THENCE IT IS FLAT WRECKAGE ON THE SEABED. THE BOW IS DETACHED AND LIES CLOSE TO THE WRECK AT 90 DEGS. (C FIDDIS, EMAIL DTD 13.1.08). RETAIN WK 35MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, INTACT, BRIDGE AREA COLLAPSED

Position: 54 25.293 N,5 20.837 W

 

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