This is the information page about the shipwreck Eikhaug, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 5.891 N,1 20.994 E (53.3729833, 1.0462167)

 

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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. Actuosity (possibly)
2. Algarve
3. Alice taylor
4. Alster
5. Alston
6. Ambrose fleming
7. Antiope
8. Aquarius (possibly)
9. Artemisia
10. Asteria
11. Baron ailsa
12. Bertha
13. Birtley
14. Blackburn
15. Boulderpool (fwd part)
16. British triumph
17. Burgos
18. Camilla weston
19. Cantabria (probably)
20. Chelsea (possibly)
21. Chevychase
22. Clan morrison
23. Clansman (possibly)
24. Continental (possibly)
25. Corchester
26. Cormarsh
27. Courier (probably)
28. Czestochowa
29. Duncarron
30. Efos
31. Eikhaug
32. Empress
33. Ems
34. Ethel
35. Fireglow
36. Francois trixier
37. Friesland
38. Fulgens
39. Gardenia
40. George royle
41. Georgia (stern section)
42. Giorgio ohlsen
43. Granta
44. Hauxley (possibly)
45. Heathfield
46. Hms arley
47. Hms cap d'antifer
48. Hms caroline moller
49. Hms cloughton wyke
50. Hms dungeness
51. Hms francolin
52. Hms kylemore
53. Hms solomon
54. Hms vortigern
55. Hmsm c 11
56. Hmsm umpire
57. Homefire
58. I t l anna b
59. Ilse
60. Jessie maersk
61. Jevington court
62. Kenton
63. Keymun
64. King egbert
65. Lanterna (probably)
66. Londoner (probably)
67. Marden
68. Minorca
69. Nimrod (probably)
70. Ole bull
71. Ottar jarl
72. Otter
73. P.l.m. 25
74. Pacific
75. Pacific (possibly)
76. Pacific (possibly)
77. Pegrix
78. Pontfield (forepart)
79. Rimac
80. Robert w pomeroy
81. Rosalie (possibly)
82. Rose marie
83. Salvus ii
84. Sheaf water
85. Sitona
86. St mark
87. St thomas (possibly)
88. Tayjack 1 (part of)
89. Tayjack 1 (part of)
90. Teddington
91. Thursonian
92. Trajan
93. Traviata (possibly)
94. Trelissick
95. Tyneford
96. Upminster
97. Varoy
98. Vera (probably)
99. Welholme (possibly)
100. Western mist (possibly)
101. Westland
102. Whintown (possibly)
103. Winhill or whinhill
104. Zephyr
105. Zor

 

Name: EIKHAUG

Length 70.4 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 1436 ton
Load: cement

Cause: Ex-brio. built in 1903 by nylands vaerksted, olso. owned at time of loss by eikhaugs rederi a/s. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 109hp, single shaft. passage london for grangemouth. cargo bagged cement. torpedoed by e-boat.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 20 meter, Height above seabed: 154 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H03126/41 14.10.41 EYE WITNESSES STATE SHIP DISINTEGRATED AND SANK IMMEDIATELY IN 530552N, 012050E. POSN SWEPT CLEAR AT 42FT. (FOIC GT YARMOUTH, 9.9.41). INS AS NDW.

- NM 2407/41. H332/62 4.2.64 EXAM'D IN 530551N, 012107E. SWEPT CLEAR AT 49, FOUL AT 54FT. GEN DEPTH 72FT. (HMS SCOTT, 1963). AMEND TO WK 8FMS. BR STD. H456/58 12.12.66 AMEND TO SW 8FMS 1FT. BR STD. 8.3.72 AMEND TO SW 14.6MTRS [LAT]. NC 105. HH090/561 5.1.93 EXAM'D 21.9.92 IN 530551.6N, 012106.5E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 17.0, FOUL AT 17.4MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 16.9 IN GEN DEPTH 21.5MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 0.6MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.0MTRS, LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. LIES 000/180 DEG. (SEATEAM, HI 561). ACCEPT SWEPT DEPTH.

- NM 263/93. SEP 2018/000159338 10.7.18 EXAM'D 29.3.18 DW IN 5305.891N, 0120.994E [WGD]. LEAST W/C DEPTH 15.87MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 20MTRS, LENGTH 47.4MTRS, WIDTH 8.7MTRS, HEIGHT 6.7MTRS, ORIENTATION 154/334 DEGS. BROKEN AND PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE, HI 1515_H102_002_18). AMEND DW 15.8MTRS IN REVISED POSN. SEP 2018/000212985 4.9.18 EXAM'D 29.3.18 DW IN 5305.891N, 0120.994E [WGD]. LEAST W/C DEPTH 15.87MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 20MTRS, LENGTH 47.4MTRS, WIDTH 8.7MTRS, HEIGHT 6.7MTRS, ORIENTATION 154/334 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 54.5MTRS, 1MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 127 DEGS. BROKEN AND PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE, HI 1515). NCA
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UK NM 3551/18

Position: 53 5.891 N,1 20.994 E

 

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