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. Daisy (possibly)
23. Dashwood
24. David b summers
25. El dorado
26. Ems
27. English trader
28. Ethel radcliffe
29. Excellenz mehnert
30. Fulgens
31. Galatea (possibly)
32. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
33. Geneva
34. George fisher
35. Georgia (for'd part)
36. Glen derry (probably)
37. Glen tilt (possibly)
38. Glynn
39. Goodwood (possibly)
40. Hamsterley
41. Hector gannet
42. Helena
43. Hms agate
44. Hms bracklyn (possibly)
45. Hms cantatrice
46. Hms dhoon (probably)
47. Hms force
48. Hms glen prosen
49. Hms m a west (probably)
50. Hms tonbridge
51. Hms tranio
52. Hms true accord (probably)
53. Hms washington (probably)
54. Hms william stephen
55. Hmsm d5
56. Horseferry (probably)
57. Ilse
58. Ionian (probably)
59. Kentwood (probably)
60. La perouse (possibly)
61. Langeli (possibly)
62. Leelite
63. Leopold ii
64. Liliane (possibly)
65. Lindisfarne (probably)
66. Marsworth
67. Meriones
68. Montferland
69. Mount ida
70. Murdoch (probably)
71. Navarra (possibly)
72. Nereus
73. Newland (possibly)
74. Nordborg (possibly)
75. Norman queen
76. Oakgrove
77. Onto
78. Osprey
79. Otis tarda
80. Oxshott (possibly)
81. Philipp m
82. Polaris
83. Prima
84. Regain
85. Robrix
86. Roine
87. Rokos vergottis
88. Rose marie
89. Roy
90. Rye
91. Seagull
92. Seaham
93. Sheaf water
94. Sir william stephenson
95. Stanmount
96. Togston
97. Trevethoe
98. Vanguard
99. Vanilla (probably)
100. Vigo
101. Viola (possibly)
102. Virgilia
103. Waldinge
104. Walkure
105. War mehtar
106. War valley
107. Whintown (possibly)
108. Willowpool
109. Xanthe
110. 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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