This is the information page about the shipwreck Forest queen, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 59.813 N,0 7.368 E (53.740283, 0.209967)

 

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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. Acklamd (possibly)
2. Agnes
3. Airdrie (possibly)
4. Albatross
5. Appolonia
6. Beaconsfield
7. Bellerophon
8. Biesbosch
9. Birtley
10. Boys own
11. Brabant
12. Brema
13. British councillor
14. British prince
15. Briton (possibly)
16. Cadmus
17. Cambrai
18. Canada
19. Caroline
20. Chant 63
21. Charing cross (possibly)
22. Chicago
23. Chloris (possibly)
24. Commonwealth
25. Corinth (possibly)
26. Cyclope
27. Dana (possibly)
28. Deptford
29. Diana
30. Diana
31. Dryade
32. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
33. Dunstaffnage
34. Elfrida
35. Empress (probably)
36. Feltre
37. Forest queen
38. Frithof eide
39. Georgios
40. Girl ita
41. Goodwood
42. Graafjeld
43. Greltoria (probably)
44. Hannah
45. Hannah louisa
46. Harnis (probably)
47. Helmsman (probably)
48. Hercules
49. Hms akranes
50. Hms dirk
51. Hms fairy
52. Hms falcon (stern section)
53. Hms falmouth
54. Hms thalia
55. Hms thomas cornwall
56. Horsted
57. Hugh taylor
58. Ida
59. J b paddon
60. Jerv
61. John rettig (probably)
62. Kalo (probably)
63. Kernoozer
64. Kilrea
65. Kilrea (probably)
66. Kimberley (possibly)
67. Kingston cameo
68. Knuthenborg
69. Laconia (possibly)
70. Lady anstruther (probably)
71. Lady josyan
72. Landport (possibly)
73. Leander
74. Lifeguard (possibly)
75. Lindum
76. Longbenton (probably)
77. Lyra (bow section)
78. Magdalyn ann
79. Maggie
80. Malvina (fwd part)
81. Manchester engineer (probably)
82. Marian francis
83. Markersdall (probably)
84. Mazeppa
85. Middlesborough
86. Modig
87. Modiva (possibly)
88. Mongolian
89. Nitedal
90. Onward (possibly)
91. Orsa
92. Otis tetrax
93. Our lorraine
94. Paddington (possibly) & unknown
95. Paraciers
96. Peebles (possibly)
97. Portia
98. Realf
99. Riviere
100. Rosa
101. Runswick
102. Seistan
103. Sirajah
104. Sna iii
105. Sota eduardo
106. Stanburn
107. Storm drift
108. Tangistan
109. Tees
110. Thea
111. Togston (possibly)
112. Tredegar hall
113. Trongate
114. Ub 107 & malvina (after part)
115. Uc 39
116. Uc 47
117. Uc 75
118. Umbe
119. Upminster (possibly)
120. Varangmalm (possibly)
121. Ville de valenciennes
122. War crocus (possibly)
123. Wayside flower (possibly)
124. Whitemantle (possibly)

 

Name: FOREST QUEEN

Length 52.2 meter, width: 7.5 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 446 ton
Load: railway: stock and construction materials,ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore

Cause: built of iron in 1863 by henderson & coulborn & co, renfrew. owned at time of loss by w rawson & j robinson of hull. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 90hp, single shaft. machinery by gilbert & cooper, hull. passage hull for stockton-on-tees. cargo rails and iron ore. sank following collision with ss loughbrow (733gt) in calm conditions. 14 men lost.

Year of registration: 1960

Water depth above wreck: 35 meter, Height above seabed: 5 cm

Known since: 1960, last detected: 20160310

Details measurements/cartography: H5916/59 9.6.60 TWO SEARCHES CONDUCTED FOR STAXTON WYKE (QV). ONLY SMALL PIECES OF WRECKAGE LOCATED IN 535452N, 001033E. (TH 22.10.59). INS AS FOUL. BR STD. H5084/77 20.3.8 WK LOCATED 14.11.79 IN 535947N, 000728E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. EXAM'D BY HMS BULLDOG USING HYDROSEARCH. LEAST E/S DEPTH 30.9 IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.1MTRS, LENGTH 51MTRS, BEAM 7MTRS. HEIGHT IN VERTICAL MODE 4MTRS. (HMS EGERIA, HI 64/79). AMEND TO WK 30.5MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/17 25.7.01 HAS BEEN LOCATED AND DIVED IN 5359.80N, 0007.35E [WGD]. COLLAPSED AND BROKEN. STANDS 1.5MTRS HIGH. BOILER ON THE PORT SIDE. BELL AND TELEGRAPH LOCATED. LOTS OF FURNACE BRICKS SCATTERED ABROUND THE SITE. (R YOUNG, EMAIL DTD 20.7.01). NCA. HH100/351/18 8.4.02 SMALL AFT ENGINE. ON EVEN KEEL WITH BOWS N. SEABED SAND. IDENTIFIED BY BELL. (A C JACKSON & C A RACEY). NCA. HH100/351/18 30.4.02 ENGINE AFT. WELL BROKEN UP FWD. HIGHEST POINT FWD OF THE ENGINE. NETTED. (S OLD). NCA. 14.7.03 MAKER'S PLATE MARKED LONDON, KNOWN LOCALLY AS "STAND" WRECK. MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW. (STEVE OLD/G FURSE TELECON 14.7.03) SEP 2016/000053291 5.10.16 EXAM'D 10.3.16; IN 5359.813N, 0007.368 [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 30.27MTRS, GEN DEPTH 35MTRS. LENGTH 48.1MTRS, WIDTH 13.1MTRS, HT 4.90MTRS, ORIENTATION 005/185 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY, WK PARTIALLY INTACT. (MMT, HI 1473, H525_8988). AMEND NDW 30MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Wreck partially intact.

Position: 53 59.813 N,0 7.368 E

 

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