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 (53.372983333333, 1.0462166666667)

 

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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. Ayrshire (possibly)
12. Baron ailsa
13. Bertha
14. Birtley
15. Blackburn
16. Boulderpool (fwd part)
17. British triumph
18. Burgos
19. Camilla weston
20. Cantabria (probably)
21. Chelsea (possibly)
22. Chevychase
23. Clan morrison
24. Clansman (possibly)
25. Continental (possibly)
26. Corchester
27. Corea
28. Cormarsh
29. Courier (probably)
30. Czestochowa
31. Duncarron
32. Efos
33. Eikhaug
34. Empress
35. Ems
36. Ethel
37. Fireglow
38. Francois trixier
39. Friesland
40. Fulgens
41. Gardenia
42. George royle
43. Georgia (stern section)
44. Giorgio ohlsen
45. Granta
46. Hauxley (possibly)
47. Heathfield
48. Hms arley
49. Hms cap d'antifer
50. Hms caroline moller
51. Hms cloughton wyke
52. Hms dungeness
53. Hms francolin
54. Hms kylemore
55. Hms nogi
56. Hms solomon
57. Hms vortigern
58. Hmsm c 11
59. Hmsm umpire
60. Homefire
61. Hull trader
62. I t l anna b
63. Ilse
64. Jessie maersk
65. Jevington court
66. Kenton
67. Keymun
68. King egbert
69. Lanterna (probably)
70. Londoner (probably)
71. Marden
72. Minorca
73. Nimrod (probably)
74. Ole bull
75. Ottar jarl
76. Otter
77. P.l.m. 25
78. Pacific
79. Pacific (possibly)
80. Pacific (possibly)
81. Pegrix
82. Pontfield (forepart)
83. Rimac
84. Robert w pomeroy
85. Rosalie (possibly)
86. Rose marie
87. Salvus ii
88. Sheaf water
89. Sitona
90. St mark
91. St thomas (possibly)
92. Tayjack 1 (part of)
93. Tayjack 1 (part of)
94. Tayjack 1 (part of)
95. Teddington
96. Thursonian
97. Trajan
98. Traviata (possibly)
99. Trelissick
100. Tyneford
101. Upminster
102. Varoy
103. Vera (probably)
104. Welholme (possibly)
105. Western mist (possibly)
106. Westland
107. Whintown (possibly)
108. Winhill or whinhill
109. Zephyr
110. 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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