This is the information page about the shipwreck Elsa, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 18.009 N,3 30.64 W (50.300150, -3.510667)

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: ELSA

Length 102.1 meter, width: 1 meter, draught: 7.9, tonnage 3581 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,coal

Cause: built in 1904 by the tyne shipbuilding co. owned at time of loss by norwegian african australian line. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 292 nhp, single shaft. machinery by the ne marine engine co, newcastle-upon-tyne. passage sourabaya for christiana, via falmouth. torpedoed by ub-31. crew recovered. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1939

Water depth above wreck: 38 meter, Height above seabed: 118 cm

Known since: 1939, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: H6025/39 22.8.39 WK, LEAST DEPTH OVER 16FMS, IN 501800N, 033035W. (HMS GLEANER). - FNM ACTION. H2502/51 25.1.52 WK IN 501758N, 033030W. DEPTH OVER WK 15FMS. HEIGHT ABOVE SEABED 24FT. (HMS SEAGULL, 1950). AMEND TO WK 15FMS. BR STD. H6025/39 8.10.52 LEAST DEPTH NOW 13FMS. (HMS SCOTT, 1952). AMEND TO WK 13FMS. BR STD. H2137/54 21.7.70 NOW CHARTED AS WK 23MTRS. NC 1634. H2396/77 9.3.77 WK IN 501801N, 033039W USING DECCA. LENGTH ABOUT 440FT BY SONAR. LYING ABOUT NNW/SSE. NEARLY UPRIGHT. STANDS ABOUT 25FT HIGH. LEAST DEPTH BY E/S 99FT. GEN DEPTH 120FT. VERY DEEP SCOUR, PERHAPS OVER 25FT. THIS WK WAS USED TO TRAIN DIVERS - VERY LITTLE KNOWN ABOUT IT. PROBABLY MUCH DIVED BY SUB-AQUA ENTHUSIASTS. SURVEY BY SONAR, E/S AND DIVERS. (RISDON BEAZLEY MARINE LTD, 10.2.77). NCA. H5982/82 15.2.83 TWO WKS SHOWN IN 501752N, 033031W AND 501754N, 033016W USING DECCA ON KINGFISHER CHART, K(SW)3 [1982 EDN]. NCA. H1310/87/43 30.11.87 WELL-PRESERVED, REASONABLY INTACT, WK IN 501757N, 033024W. DEPTH TO FO'C'SLE 42MTRS. SHELL CASES APPROX 3", SEEN ON DECK AFT, ARE DATED 1917. (CDR D M H LINGARD, 20.11.87). NCA. 14.5.07 UPRIGHT, BROKEN MIDSHIPS. (DIVER MAGAZINE, MAY 2005). NCA. 18.4.13 EXAM'D 6.1.13 IN 5018.009N, 0330.640W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 31.2 IN GEN DEPTH 38.0MTRS. LEAST W/C DEPTH 30.82MTRS. SCOUR 10MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 124 DEGS TOWARDS 044 DEGS AND 138MTRS TOWARDS 214 DEGS. LENGTH 95.1MTRS, WIDTH 16.5MTRS, HT 6.0MTRS. LIES 118/298 DEGS WITH BOWS ESE. INTACT. (EMU, HI 1374). AMEND WK 30.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, INTACT, SCOUR RUNS NE & SW

Position: 50 18.009 N,3 30.64 W

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