This is the information page about the shipwreck Elsena (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 33.294 N,5 37.222 W (52.604766666667, -5.5701166666667)

 

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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. Arcadian (possibly)
2. Ardglass (possibly)
3. Birchwood (possibly)
4. Boltonhall (possibly)
5. Boscawen (probably)
6. City of glasgow (probably)
7. Elsena (possibly)
8. Ennistown (possibly)
9. Francoise de lille (possibly)
10. Galatea (possibly)
11. Greldon (possibly)
12. Gresham (possibly)
13. Halberdier (possibly)
14. Harvest home
15. Kirkby (probably)
16. Ladoga (possibly)
17. Landonia (probably)
18. Maggie
19. Memphian (possibly)
20. Mesaba (probably)
21. Osage (possibly)
22. Paros
23. Prins frederik hendrik (possibly)
24. Rose marie (probably)
25. Rotula (possibly)
26. Soreldoc (possibly)
27. Spenser (possibly)
28. Susanne ii
29. The queen
30. Walpas (possibly)
31. Yturri bide (possibly)

 

Name: ELSENA (POSSIBLY)

Length 43.3 meter, width: 7.3 meter, draught: 3, tonnage 335 ton
Load: foodstuffs: solid

Cause: ex-lady bacon. built in 1911 by g brown, greenock. owned at time of loss by joseph monks & co ltd. single boiler, compound engine, machinery aft by gauldie, gillesbie & co, glasgow. passage waterford for manchester. cargo oats. captured by submarine and sunk by gunfire.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 83 meter, Height above seabed: 135 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 1979

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 16M SE 1/2 S FROM S ARKLOW LTV. POSN ACCEPTED AS PA 523100N, 053500W. INS ON CHARTS. H3058/53 18.5.53 H3058/53 18.5.53 AMEND TO NDWPA. NC 1410. 9.11.77 9.11.77 AMEND TO USCPA 55MTRS. NC 1787. H1950/76 11.11.80 H1950/76 11.11.80 WK EXAM'D 25.4.80 IN 523316N, 053710W [OGB] USING RO/RO HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 74 IN GEN DEPTH 83MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 8MTRS. APPROX LENGTH 60MTRS. LYING NW/SE. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 40/80). AMEND WK 74MTRS. BR STD. [WGD] POSN: 5233.294N, 0537.222W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 33.294 N,5 37.222 W

 

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