This is the information page about the shipwreck Faunus, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 28.121 N,0 17.024 E (53.569150, 0.093600)

 

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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. Ac 9
2. Amelie-mathilde
3. Amenity
4. Arduity
5. Audacity
6. Avalon
7. B o borjesson
8. Benmacdhui
9. Box hill
10. Breitenburg
11. British councillor
12. Canada
13. City of birmingham
14. Corinth (possibly)
15. Cramlington (possibly)
16. Daphne ii
17. Dayrian
18. Deerpool (after section)
19. Deerpool (for'd section)
20. Diana
21. Dido
22. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
23. Dunsany
24. Egret
25. Empress (probably)
26. Ethel (possibly)
27. Exmoor
28. Faunus
29. Femke
30. Fermo
31. Fowberry tower (part)
32. Fowberry tower (part)
33. Francis
34. Fryken
35. Georgie
36. Georgios
37. Gerhardt (possibly)
38. Girl kitty (possibly)
39. Giuseppe
40. Gladeto
41. Gothic
42. Grangemouth
43. Harlech
44. Hms benvolio
45. Hms calverton
46. Hms corfield
47. Hms cortina
48. Hms dervish
49. Hms egret
50. Hms lormont
51. Hms mistletoe
52. Hms othello
53. Hms princess victoria
54. Hms remillo
55. Hms st cyrus
56. Hms strathborve (part)
57. Hms susarion
58. Hms yorkshire belle
59. Homer
60. Ightham (possibly)
61. Ionic (probably)
62. Janet helen (possibly)
63. John and thomas
64. John mowlem
65. Katina bulgari
66. Kyma
67. Ladas (possibly)
68. Lady dinah
69. Lancaster (possibly)
70. Lct(4) 1029
71. Lightship no 83
72. Lincolnshire time and tide bell
73. Lord haig (possibly)
74. Lord haig (possibly)
75. Lord selborne
76. Lottie (possibly)
77. Lucerne
78. Lutha
79. Lyra (bow section)
80. Magnolia (probably)
81. Mangalore (part of)(possibly)
82. Marian francis
83. Marshall (probably)
84. Merchiston
85. Modig
86. Modiva (possibly)
87. Monimia (possibly)
88. Nadod (possibly)
89. Nautilus
90. Nimrod
91. Odessa
92. Ophir ii (possibly)
93. Orsa
94. Otis tetrax
95. Paraciers
96. Portia
97. Ravonia (part)
98. Ravonia (part) (possibly)
99. Rayford
100. Reculver
101. Retriever
102. Revello
103. Revi
104. Rhuys
105. Rievaulx abbey
106. Rivaulx
107. River don (part of)(probably)
108. River witham
109. Rivergate
110. Rosebud (possibly)
111. Sagacity
112. Salacon
113. Salmondby
114. Saltoun
115. Sandra glen
116. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
117. Stylianos chandris
118. Teano
119. Thessaly
120. Thomas deas
121. Triton
122. Vechstroom
123. Venture (possibly)
124. Whitemantle (possibly)
125. William hanson
126. Windsor (part of)
127. Windsor (part of)
128. Winga
129. Xavier
130. Xavier
131. Zeemermin

 

Name: FAUNUS

Length 61 meter, width: 8.8 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 749 ton
Load: timber,wood: unprocessed and products

Cause: built in 1891 in southampton naval works, southampton. owned at time of loss by rederi aktieb concordia. two boilers, compound expansion engine of 70hp, single shaft passage domsjo for london. struck a mine laid by uc-17 14m s by e of flamborough head. was taken in tow by danish ss but eventually capsized.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 7 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H7388/17 WK IN 532811N, 001721E MARKED BY BUOY CLOSE E. (ADMIRALTY). - FNM 79/17. H3849/18 26.8.18 NOTHING FOUND. 5FMS ALL ROUND POSN. (VAEC). NCA YET. H6391/19 & H3849/18 3.1.19 LEAST DEPTH IN 532811N, 001721E REPD AS 24FT. (VAEC). AMEND TO SOUNDING 24FT. NE 109 & 1190. H6077/21 6.10.21 WK DISPERSED & BUOY WITHDRAWN. (TH). H6077/21 7.6.22 DETACHED PIECES OF WK 22FT LWST, GEN DEPTH OF SEABED 23-24FT LWST. (TH SURVEY 30.5.22). AMEND TO SOUNDING 22FT. BR STD. H595/58 2.6.58 AMEND TO WK 3FMS 4FT (6.7MTRS) IN 532811N, 001721E. NC 107. 3.6.75 WK 6MTRS IN 532811N, 001721E [OGB]. (ADMIRALTY). NC 107. HH090/593/01 22.12.93 NOT FOUND. (OCEONICS (UK) LTD., HI 593). AMEND TO FOUL. BR STD. SEP 2014/000180690 14.7.14 EXAM'D 12.3.14 IN 5328.121N, 0017.024E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 4.62 IN GEN DEPTH 7.1MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 41MTRS, WIDTH 14MTRS, HT 2.5MTRS. LIES 087/267 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT. (GARDLINE, HI 1419). ?BOWS W WITH W END COLLAPSED. AMEND WK 4.6MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ?BOWS W WITH W END COLLAPSED

Position: 53 28.121 N,0 17.024 E

 

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