This is the information page about the shipwreck Falkland, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 52.986 N,6 25.804 W (49.947816666667, -6.3925666666667)

 

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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.

 

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Name: FALKLAND

Length 96.9 meter, width: 13.8 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 2867 ton
Load: grain

Cause: built in 1889 by w h potter & sons and owned at the time of loss by palace shipping co., struck bishop rock ltho and sank whilst en route from tacoma to falmouth. 6 lives lost. (dods & shipwreck index of the british isles).

Year of registration: 1973

Water depth above wreck: 41 meter, Height above seabed: 157 cm

Known since: 1973, last detected: 1974

Details measurements/cartography: H2568/71 14.11.73 WRECK REPORTED BY MR COWANS DIVERS IN 495257N, 062545W [OGB]. HULL INTACT, ABOUT 15FT HIGH. THREE OF THE FOUR MASTS LYING ALONG SEABED AREA. THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED WITH E/S AND WRECK SHOWED CLEARLY IN FLAT BOTTOMED AREA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 35MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 40-41MTRS. (HMS HECATE, R-OF-S [K6742/1] APPENDIX 2, 16.7.73). CHART AS DWP 35MTRS. NE 34. H3227/74 6.6.74 WRECK OF SV, POSSIBLY 'FALKLAND', LOCATED USING MAGNETOMETER IN 495302N, 062517W USING DECCA. POSSIBLY THIS WRECK OR NEAR TO IT. ESTIMATED 2000 TONS, LIES SSE/NNW. PARTLY SILTED RIBS, MASS OF MASTS AND PLATING AND SEVERAL LARGE MASTS LYING AROUND AND HEAPS OF CHAIN WITH ANCHOR TO NW. (MR GILES, 15.5.74). NCA. 30.10.00 DATA RE-ASSESSED. AMEND TO WK 35.0MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 52.986 N,6 25.804 W

 

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