This is the information page about the shipwreck Eric calvert (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 4.203 N,5 0.414 W (50.070050, -5.006900)

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: ERIC CALVERT (POSSIBLY)

Length 82.4 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 5.6, tonnage 1862 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-elmville. built in 1889 by w gray & co, west hartlepool. owned at time of loss by l mitchell & sons. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 169nhp, single shaft. passage penarth for boulogne. torpedoed ub 103. two men lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 58 meter, Height above seabed: 80 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: H4239/73 15.8.74 WK LOCATED IN 500413N, 050019W USING DECCA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 49.3 IN GEN DEPTH 59MTRS. NO SCOUR. SEABED FLAT. (HMS HECATE). CHART AS WK 49MTRS. BR STD. H1309/75/464 6.7.76 WK LOCATED IN 500421N, 050019W APPROX USING DECCA. (CPO CAKEBREAD, RNAS CULDROSE). NCA. HH100/351/15 16.2.00 DIVED IN 1998 IN 5004.217N, 0500.317W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 52 IN GEN DEPTH 61MTRS. LENGTH 85MTRS, WIDTH 13MTRS. HT BY DEPTH GAUGE 10MTRS. FULLY INTACT AND LYING ON ITS STBD SIDE. COVERED IN NETS. SEABED FINE SAND & SILT. (J ROSEVEARE). AMEND POSN. BR STD. 25.10.01 CINC REMOVED. (J ROSEVEARE/G FURSE TELECON 25.10.01). HH232/420/06 15.12.04 EXAM'D IN 5004.198N, 0500.413W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 49.3MTRS. LENGTH 83MTRS, WIDTH 21MTRS. LIES E/W. (RESON/FATHOMS SURVEY DTD 18.10.04). AMEND POSN. BR STD. 26.4.13 EXAM'D 27.2.13 IN 5004.203N, 0500.414W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 48.96 IN GEN DEPTH 58MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 94.8MTRS, WIDTH 18.7MTRS, HT 9.04MTRS. LIES 080/260 DEGS. ON STDB SIDE AND SLIGHTLY BROKEN. (NETSURVEY, HI 1406). BOWS E, BOW SECTION COLLAPSED AND BROKEN OFF. AMEND WK 48MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, ON STBD SIDE, BOW BROKEN AND COLLAPSED

Position: 50 4.203 N,5 0.414 W

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