This is the information page about the shipwreck Dryade, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 59.343 N,0 4.442 E (53.740283, 0.209967)

 

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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. Agnes
2. Airdrie (possibly)
3. Albatross
4. Amsteldam
5. Angelo rose
6. Appolonia
7. Ardens (probably)
8. Avance (probably)
9. Beaconsfield
10. Bellerophon
11. Biesbosch
12. Birtley
13. Bonhomme richard
14. Boys own
15. Brabant
16. Brema
17. Briton (possibly)
18. Cadmus
19. Cambrai
20. Canada
21. Caroline
22. Chant 63
23. Charing cross (possibly)
24. Chicago
25. Chloris (possibly)
26. Commonwealth
27. Corinth (possibly)
28. Cyclope
29. Dana (possibly)
30. Deptford
31. Diana
32. Diana
33. Dryade
34. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
35. Dunstaffnage
36. Elfrida
37. Empress (probably)
38. Feltre
39. Forest queen
40. Frithof eide
41. G.3
42. Georgios
43. Girl ita
44. Goodwood
45. Graafjeld
46. Greltoria (probably)
47. Hannah
48. Hannah louisa
49. Helmsman (probably)
50. Hercules
51. Hms akranes
52. Hms desire (possibly)
53. Hms dirk
54. Hms fairy
55. Hms falcon (stern section)
56. Hms falmouth
57. Hms thalia
58. Hms thomas cornwall
59. Horsted
60. Hugh taylor
61. Ida
62. J b paddon
63. Jerv
64. John rettig (probably)
65. Kalo (probably)
66. Kernoozer
67. Kilrea
68. Kilrea (probably)
69. Kimberley (possibly)
70. Kingston cameo
71. Knuthenborg
72. Laconia (possibly)
73. Lady anstruther (probably)
74. Lady josyan
75. Landport (possibly)
76. Lifeguard (possibly)
77. Lindum
78. Longbenton (probably)
79. Lyra (bow section)
80. Magdalyn ann
81. Malvina (fwd part)
82. Manchester engineer (probably)
83. Marian francis
84. Markersdall (probably)
85. Mazeppa
86. Middlesborough
87. Modig
88. Modiva (possibly)
89. Mongolian
90. Nitedal
91. Onward (possibly)
92. Orsa
93. Otis tetrax
94. Our lorraine
95. Paddington (possibly) & unknown
96. Paraciers
97. Peebles (possibly)
98. Portia
99. Potomac
100. Riviere
101. Rosa
102. Runswick
103. Sapphire (probably)
104. Seistan
105. Sirajah
106. Sna iii
107. Sota eduardo
108. Sote (aft part)
109. Stanburn
110. Storm drift
111. Tangistan
112. Tees
113. Thea
114. Togston (possibly)
115. Tredegar hall
116. Trongate
117. Ub 107 & malvina (after part)
118. Uc 39
119. Uc 75
120. Umbe
121. Upminster (possibly)
122. Vaaren
123. Vaaren (possibly)
124. Varangmalm (possibly)
125. Ville de valenciennes
126. War crocus (possibly)
127. Wayside flower (possibly)
128. Whitemantle (possibly)

 

Name: DRYADE

Length 76.7 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 4.5, tonnage 1833 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1906 by ag 'neptun', rostock. originally owned by olldaard & thoersen shipping line. seized as a prize of war and owned at time of loss by the admiralty. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 133hp, single shaft. passage tyne for london. cargo coal. sank after collision with ss upminster. (c racey & sibi).

Year of registration: 1944

Water depth above wreck: 31 meter, Height above seabed: 115 cm

Known since: 1944, last detected: 20160310

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 10 MILES S BY E FROM FLAMBOROUGH HEAD. H01624/44 15.4.44 POSN 535846N, 000223E. LEAST DEPTH 51FT. (CAPT M/S HUMBER 14.4.44). INS AS NDW.

- NM 1612/44. H01624/44 29.7.44 DELETED.

- NM 1612/44. 10.4.72 INS AS WK 15.5MTRS. NC 121. 19.5.74 AMEND TO WK 14.8MTRS [LAT]. NC 121. H5084/77 21.3.80 EXAM'D 28.11.79 IN 535919N, 000434E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 25.1 IN GEN DEPTH 32.1MTRS. SCOUR 1.5MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 6.8MTRS, LENGTH 90MTRS. LYING 110/290DEG. MAINLY INTACT. (HMS ECHO, HI 64/79). BR STD. HH100/351/20 18.7.03 DIVED 13.7.03 IN 5359.366N, 0004.420E [WGD]. CONSIDERED TO BE DRYADE OR BREMA. DRYADE HAD ONE BOILER, BREMA HAD TWO. SUPERSTRUCTURE NOT COLLAPSED. UPRIGHT TOILET ON THE BOW SECTION. FWD HOLD COLLAPSED. STERN RISES AGAIN. AMMUNITION SEEN. STEERING POSITION ON THE STERN. LARGE WINCH ON FRONT. DIVED BY S OLD, B WOOLFORD, D SMITH. (S OLD, E-MAIL DTD 16.7.03) NCA. 9.12.10 DIVED CONFIRMED AS DRYADE BY RECOVERED CROCKERY BEARING THE SHIPPING LINE FLAG OF THE GERMAN OWNERS, OLLGAARD & THOERSEN. THIS WAS RECOVERED BY ANNIE MORRISION OF SCARBOROUGH SAC. A PORT HOLE WAS ALSO RECOVERED STAMPED 'ROSTOCK' AND THE MACHINERY DETAILS MATCH THOSE OF DRYADE. (C RACEY, EMAIL DTD 8.12.10). NCA. SEP 2016/000053291 5.10.16 EXAM'D 10.3.16; IN 5359.343N, 0004.442 [WGD]. LEAST WCD DEPTH 24.72MTRS, GEN DEPTH 31MTRS. LENGTH 79.3MTRS, WIDTH 15.3MTRS, HT 7.21MTRS, ORIENTATION 115/295 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY, WK PARTIALLY INTACT. (MMT, HI 1473, H525_8985). AMEND NDW 24.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Wreck partially intact.

Position: 53 59.343 N,0 4.442 E

 

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