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 (53.56915, 0.0936)

 

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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. Amelie-mathilde
2. Amenity
3. Arduity
4. Avalon
5. B o borjesson
6. Benmacdhui
7. Breitenburg
8. British councillor
9. Canada
10. Carson
11. City of birmingham
12. Coastal fort no 1 (part of)(possibly)
13. Coastal fort no-1
14. Cook s26
15. Corinth (possibly)
16. Cramlington (possibly)
17. Daphne ii
18. Dayrian
19. Deerpool (after 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. Francis
33. Fryken
34. Georgie
35. Georgios
36. Gerhardt (possibly)
37. Girl kitty (possibly)
38. Giuseppe
39. Gladeto
40. Gothic
41. Grangemouth
42. Harlech
43. Hms benvolio
44. Hms calverton
45. Hms corfield
46. Hms egret
47. Hms mistletoe
48. Hms othello
49. Hms princess victoria
50. Hms remillo
51. Hms silicia
52. Hms strathborve (part)
53. Hms susarion
54. Hms yorkshire belle
55. Homer
56. Hvitveis
57. Ightham (possibly)
58. Ionic (probably)
59. Janet helen (possibly)
60. John and thomas
61. John mowlem
62. Katina bulgari
63. Kyma
64. Ladas (possibly)
65. Lancaster (possibly)
66. Lct(4) 1029
67. Lightship no 83
68. Lincolnshire time and tide bell
69. Lord haig (possibly)
70. Lord haig (possibly)
71. Lottie (possibly)
72. Lucerne
73. Lutha
74. Lyra (bow section)
75. Marian francis
76. Marie l
77. Meeuw
78. Merchiston
79. Modig
80. Modiva (possibly)
81. Monimia (possibly)
82. Nar
83. Nimrod
84. Odessa
85. Ophir ii (possibly)
86. Orsa
87. Otis tetrax
88. Paraciers
89. Peggotty
90. Portia
91. Ravonia (part)
92. Ravonia (part) (possibly)
93. Rayford
94. Reculver
95. Retriever
96. Revello
97. Revi
98. Rhuys
99. Rievaulx abbey
100. Rivaulx
101. River don (part of)(probably)
102. River witham
103. Rivergate
104. Rosebud (possibly)
105. Sagacity
106. Salacon
107. Salmondby
108. Saltoun
109. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
110. Sergei
111. Stylianos chandris
112. Thessaly
113. Thomas deas
114. Triton
115. Uralar segundo (cargo debris)
116. Vechstroom
117. Venture (possibly)
118. Violet (probably)
119. Whitemantle (possibly)
120. William hanson
121. Windsor (part of)
122. Winga
123. Xavier
124. 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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