This is the information page about the shipwreck Deucalion, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 9.233 N,2 3.442 W (50.153883, -2.057367)

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: DEUCALION

Length 90.2 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1976 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: bombed and sunk by german aircraft. 27 survivors (ww2sl). built by rijkee & co, in the nethlands. owned at time of loss by koninklije nederlandsche stoomboat maats. lost whilst in convoy oa 178. powered by triple expansion engine of 196 nhp. 2 main boilers with 1 auxillary. (n r chipchase).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 58 meter, Height above seabed: 120 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1996

Details measurements/cartography: H1001/40 4.7.40 VERY APPROX POSN 500900N, 020100W. (TRADE DIV. LIST 4.7.40). INS DWPA IN 500900N, 020100W. H3504/51 12.2.60 WK DIVED ON JUNE 1951 IN 500830N, 020412W [OGB[ USING DECCA. FIRST THOUGHT TO BE WK OF SUBMARINE, BUT ON SUBSEQUENT DIVE IDENTIFIED AS OLD SURFACE VESSEL PROBABLY WWI PERIOD. STANDS 22 TO 42FT HIGH AND LIES 085/265 DEGS. LENGTH 270 - 340FT. MAY BE TWO WKS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY. (CINC PORTSMOUTH, 24.7.51). AMEND TO NDW. 3.3.60 SONAR CONTACT, WK, IN 500930N, 020330W, APPROX. (AUBD 304/142). 9.8.78 AMEND TO USC 33MTRS. NE 2454.. 18.1.80 SHOWN AS NDWPA ON FRENCH 878 [DEC '79]. NCA. HH100/351/05 23.1.92 DEFINITE WK LOCATED IN 500914.5N, 020317W USING E/S AND MAGNETOMETER. COULD BE WK OF DALLAS CITY. (D G WOODHAMS). HH090/533/01 24.2.92 WK EXAM'D 26.11.91 IN 500914N, 020326.5W [WGD] USING HYPERFIX. LEAST E/S DEPTH 52.3 IN GEN DEPTH 58MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 5.9MTRS, LENGTH 65MTRS. LIES 120/300 DEG WITH HIGH POINT AT SE END. A LARGE MAGNETIC ANOMALY WAS OBSERVED. LARGE AND FAIRLY INTACT. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 533). AMEND TO WK 52MTRS.

- NM 783/92. HH100/351/11 4.9.96 DIVED IN 500912N, 020315W [OGB] USING DECCA. WK IS A STEAMSHIP WITH TWO MAIN BOILERS AND ONE AUXILLARY. WELL BROKEN AMIDSHIPS AND THE STERN ON THE STBD SIDE. WK HAS DUTCH FITTINGS MARKED 'DELS CIE NV HAN ROTTERDAM' AND DUTCH CROCKERY MARKED 'VAN ZWANENBURG ROTTERDAM'. (N R CHIPCHASE). HH100/351/12 20.9.96 REPORTED THAT BUILDER'S PLATE HAS BEEN RECOVERED CONFIRMING VESSEL AS 'DEUCALION'. (N R CHIPCHASE).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: PROBABLY UPRIGHT, WELL BROKEN MIDSHIPS

Position: 50 9.233 N,2 3.442 W

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