This is the information page about the shipwreck Eildon, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 25.137 N,4 55.567 W (48.418950, -4.926117)

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: EILDON

Length 79.2 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1329 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,railway: stock and construction materials,ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined

Cause: built 1905 by a stephen & sons. owned at time of loss by george gibson & co. passage liverpool for nates. struck a rock & sank 2m ne of molene. (dods).

Year of registration: 1919

Water depth above wreck: 24 meter

Known since: 1919, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: H1691/19 11.7.19 WK IN 482517N, 045524W MARKED BY G BUOY. (PARIS NM). INS AS WK [OLD SYMBOL], WITH BUOY. NE 2694. H8394/26 29.12.26 NOW DW (1915), BUOY REMOVED. (PARIS NM 50/2212). BR STD. 19.8.77 WK IN 482518N, 045527W [EUR]. GEN DEPTH 24MTRS. SIZE, OVER 50MTRS OR 1000TONS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1976). 3.5.84 WK OF SS 'EILDON' IN 482518N, 045527W [EUR]. GEN DEPTH 24MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1984). NC 3345. H1271/85 12.8.85 SHOWN AS DW PD ON FRENCH 5287 [1986 EDN]. BR STD. 24.5.90 BRITISH SS 'EILDON' IN 482518N, 045527W [EUR]. POSN ACCURACY 500MTRS [NOT PA OR PD]. DW IN GEN DEPTH 24MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14584055). SHOWN AS DW PD ON FRENCH 7122 [1989 EDN]. INS AS DW. NC 3345. 5.6.90 SHOWN AS DW PD ON FRENCH 7122 [REPROMAT]. NC 3345. 24.6.92 SHOWN AS DW PD ON FRENCH 7149 [1990 EDN]. NE 2694. HH351/620/02 4.11.94 AMENDED TO DW PA IN 482511N, 045529W [EUR]. (FRENCH NM 94 42 20). BR STD. 25.9.97 SHOWN AS DW ON FRENCH 7122 [1997 EDN]. BR STD. SEP 2008/000025419 28.3.08 SHOWN AS DW PA IN 4825.123N, 0555.573W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7122 [3RD EDN 2008, 1:25,000]. BR STD. 4.3.09 SHOWN AS DW ON FRENCH 6680 [3RD EDN 2003, CORRECT TO NM 42 29 08, 1:150,000, 3RD SCALE ADOPTION]. ACCEPT LARGER SCALE FRENCH 7122. INS DW PA. NC 2647. SEP 2016/000015813 25.2.16 SHOWN AS WK 21MTRS IN 4825.123N, 0455.573W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7066 [ED4, COR 8.1.16]. AMEND TO DW 21MTRS. SEP 2016/000238697 15.11.16 SHOWN AS WK [PA] 21MTRS IN 4825.137N, 0455.567W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7123. [ED 4, DTD 2016]. AMEND TO WK [PA] 21MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 48 25.137 N,4 55.567 W

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