This is the information page about the shipwreck Excelsior, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 59 7.29 N,2 55.07 W (59.121500, -2.917833)

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: EXCELSIOR

Length 30.6 meter, width: 6.3 meter, draught: 3.3, tonnage 148 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built 1889 by cook, welton & gemmell ltd, hull, with 2 cylinder compound engine of 45hp, 1 boiler, single shaft. machinery by bailey & leetham, hull. owned at time of loss by humber steam trawling co ltd, hull. stranded & lost on point of the graand, egilsay in sw force 8 winds. (sibi)

Year of registration: 2007

Water depth above wreck: 3 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 2007

Details measurements/cartography: SEP 2007/000037519 16.5.07 REMAINS OF S TRAWLER EXCELSIOR LIE IN 5907.290N, 0255.07W [WGD]. LIES NE/SW, BOWS NE, IN GEN DEPTH 3MTRS. BOILER IS HIGHEST POINT WHICH DRIES 1MTRS AT LW. METAL SPIKES EXTEND FROM EITHER SIDE OF BOILER. (K HEATH, TELECON 19.4.07) INS AS OB DRIES 1MTR. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BOILER DRIES AT LW

Position: 59 7.29 N,2 55.07 W

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