This is the information page about the shipwreck Devonian, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 30.158 N,8 1.864 W (55.799933333333, -7.9008)

 

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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. Amazon (probably)
2. Boma
3. Bussum (after part)
4. Bussum (fore part) (possibly)
5. Devonian
6. Fv geneveive
7. Gaelic
8. Hms anchusa (possibly)
9. Hms audacious
10. Hms charles astie (possibly)
11. Hms hurst castle (possibly)
12. Hms nathaniel cole (possibly)
13. Hms st johns
14. Hms transylvania
15. Hmsm d6 (possibly)
16. Kalliopi s.
17. Manchester commerce (possibly
18. Manchester commerce (probably)
19. Oldfield grange (part of)(pos
20. Roscommon
21. Silver rose
22. Stolwijk
23. Tritonia (possibly)
24. U 149
25. U 170
26. U 637
27. U 89 (possibly)
28. Vesltelv (possibly)
29. Widwud (possibly)

 

Name: DEVONIAN

Length 168.6 meter, width: 18 meter, draught: 11.2, tonnage 10435 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1900 by harland & wolff, belfast. owned at time of loss by f leyland & co ltd. four boilers, triple expansion engine of 847 nhp, single shaft. passage liverpool for boston. torpedoed by u-53. 4 lives lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 75 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2009

Details measurements/cartography: POSN 553100N, 080000W REPORTED IN 1918 AS THAT OF THE HMS NATHANIEL COLE. (SEE ALSO). 16.8.79 16.8.79 INS AS USCPA 60MTRS. NC 2723. H2175/81 12.1.81 H2175/81 12.1.81 EXAM'D 15.5.80 IN 553009N, 080150W [OGB] USING RO/RO HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 67 IN GEN DEPTH 74MTRS. DCS3 HT 6.2MTRS, LYING 056/236DEG. SMALL CONTACT WITH LARGE SCOUR. (HMS HYDRA, HI 21/79-80). BR STD. 25.4.07 25.4.07 WK LOCATED IN 5530.158N, 0801.864W [WGD] USING DGPS. GEN DEPTH 75MTRS. LENGTH 170MTRS, WIDTH 28MTRS, HT 6.1MTRS. (INSS SURVEY 1999-2005). INTACT, UPRIGHT, SCOUR AROUND WITH DEEP AREA AT NE END. PROBABLY TOO LARGE TO BE THE NATHANIEL COLE. RETAIN WK 67MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 17.2.09 17.2.09 DIVED IN 5530.160N, 0801.855W [WGD] (DATE UNKNOWN) & FOUND TO BE THE 'DEVONIAN' OF LIVERPOOL. SEE ALSO [3519]. (M MCVEIGH, EMAIL DTD 13.2.09) RETAIN IN EXISTING POSN. NCA. 25.2.14 SEP 2014/000357199 25.2.14 LEAST DEPTH 67.59MTRS. (GSI). RETAIN WK 67MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, SCOUR AROUND WITH DEEP AREA AT NE END

Position: 55 30.158 N,8 1.864 W

 

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