This is the information page about the shipwreck Eleazar (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 18.494 N,5 34.124 W (51.590433333333, -5.2717666666667)

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: ELEAZAR (POSSIBLY)

Length 27.4 meter, width: 5.9 meter, draught: 3, tonnage 111 ton

Cause: built in 1895 by hall, russel & co of aberdeen. owned at time of loss by w barton of whitby. single boiler, compound expansion engine of 45hp, single screw. base port whitby. captured by submarine and sunk by gunfire whilst fishing.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 73 meter, Height above seabed: 175 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2003

Details measurements/cartography: POSN 25 MILES SW BY W FROM ST ANNS HEAD OR 512125N, 053545W PA. H3251/80 13.10.80 WK IN TWO PARTS LOCATED 16.2.80 IN 511827.77N, 053402.74W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 72 IN GEN DEPTH 75MTRS. SCOUR 76MTRS. DCS3 HT 1.9MTRS. LYING N/S IN SMOOTH, FINE SAND. DISTANCE ABOUT 70MTRS BETWEEN THE TWO PARTS, THE LARGER BEING ABOUT 40MTRS LONG AND THE SMALLER 30MTRS. SMALL MAG ANOMALY. (HMS FAWN, HI 56A/79). APPEARS TO BE TOO LONG FOR THIS WK. ?TWO WKS. BR STD. HH090/799/02 18.6.03 EXAM'D 30.3.03 IN 5118.494N, 05 34.124W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 71.0 IN GEN DEPTH 73MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR. LENGTH 48MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS. LIES 175/355 DEGS. NO MAGNETIC ANOMALY. WELL BROKEN UP, LYING LOW IN THE SEABED. (NP 1008, HI 799). HAS ATTACHED FLOATING NETS/ROPES. AMEND TO WK 71MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP WK, NETTED

Position: 51 18.494 N,5 34.124 W

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