This is the information page about the shipwreck Galatea (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 52.223 N,1 54.757 E (52.7504, 2.0371)

 

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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. Aberhill
2. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
3. Alice taylor
4. Alster
5. Alston
6. Artemisia
7. Atle
8. Barrhill
9. Begona no 5
10. Blacktoft (possibly)
11. Boulderpool (after part)
12. Cardanel
13. Chevington
14. City of kobe
15. Continental coaster (probably)
16. Corbrook
17. Cordene
18. Corduff
19. Courier (probably)
20. Crichtoun
21. Cross sand ltv
22. Dashwood
23. David b summers
24. El dorado
25. Ems
26. English trader
27. Ethel radcliffe
28. Excellenz mehnert
29. Fulgens
30. Galatea (possibly)
31. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
32. Geneva
33. George fisher
34. Georgia (for'd part)
35. Glen derry (probably)
36. Glen tilt (possibly)
37. Glynn
38. Goodwood (possibly)
39. Hamsterley
40. Hector gannet
41. Helena
42. Hms agate
43. Hms bracklyn (possibly)
44. Hms dhoon (probably)
45. Hms force
46. Hms glen prosen
47. Hms m a west (probably)
48. Hms tonbridge
49. Hms tranio
50. Hms true accord (probably)
51. Hms washington (probably)
52. Hms william stephen
53. Hmsm d5
54. Horseferry (probably)
55. Ilse
56. Ionian (probably)
57. Kentwood (probably)
58. La perouse (possibly)
59. Langeli (possibly)
60. Leelite
61. Leopold ii
62. Liliane (possibly)
63. Lindisfarne (probably)
64. Marsworth
65. Montferland
66. Mount ida
67. Murdoch (probably)
68. Navarra (possibly)
69. Nereus
70. Newland (possibly)
71. Nordborg (possibly)
72. Norman queen
73. Oakgrove
74. Onto
75. Osprey
76. Otis tarda
77. Oxshott (possibly)
78. Philipp m
79. Polaris
80. Prima
81. Regain
82. Robrix
83. Roine
84. Rokos vergottis
85. Rose marie
86. Roy
87. Rye
88. Seagull
89. Seaham
90. Sheaf water
91. Stanmount
92. Togston
93. Trevethoe
94. Vanguard
95. Vanilla (probably)
96. Viola (possibly)
97. Virgilia
98. Waldinge
99. Walkure
100. War mehtar
101. War valley
102. Whintown (possibly)
103. Willowpool
104. Xanthe
105. Yewvalley (possibly)

 

Name: GALATEA (POSSIBLY)

Length 80.8 meter, width: 12.1 meter, draught: 7.1, tonnage 1753 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: Built in 1884 of iron by r duncan & co, port glasgow. owned at time of loss by c s caird, greenock. passage hamburg for greenock. stranded and lost in ne force 4. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1992

Water depth above wreck: 16 meter, Height above seabed: 155 cm

Known since: 1992, last detected: 20190214

Details measurements/cartography: HH090/563/01 4.11.92 LARGE WK LOCATED 29.9.92 IN 525211.3N, 015452.1E [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 5.5 IN GEN DEPTH 9MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 3.3MTRS, LENGTH 90MTRS. LIES 335/155 DEG WITH SHOALEST PART AT N END. LARGE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (NP 1016, HI 563).

- NM 3460/92. 17.12.08 MAINLY BROKEN UP WITH A LARGE SANDWAVE DISSECTING THE WK MIDSHIPS. MAX DEPTH IS ABOUT 16MTRS. LARGE NUMBER OF BARRELS OF CLAY TOWARD THE BOW FORMING THE SHOALEST POINT. PART OF THE BOW IS UPRIGHT BUT IS ONLY 1.5MTRS ABOVE SEABED. PIECES OF GLASS, CHILDREN'S TOYS, IRONWARE AND BOTTLES OF AROMATIC SCHNAPPES SPREAD OVER THE WK. FROM THE RECORDS OF LOCAL PAPERS, CARGO AND DIMENSIONS BELIEVE THIS TO BE 'GALATEA'. (T BENJAFIELD). NCA. SEP 2020/000100123 21.5.20 EXAM'D 14.02.19; IN 5252.223N, 0154.757E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 6.37MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 16MTRS, LENGTH 99.5MTRS, WIDTH 48.9MTRS, HEIGHT 9.6MTRS, ORIENTATION 155/335 DEGS. (MERITAITO, HI 1580). WRECK MOSTLY BROKEN APART, BUT LARGE MOUND IS LEFT THAT PROTRUDES PROMINENTLY FROM THE SEABED. VARIOUS MASTS CAN BE SEEN AROUND THE WRECK ON THE SEABED. AMEND DW 6.3MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 52.223 N,1 54.757 E

 

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