Wreck: Gallier (possibly) (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Gallier (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 1.577 N,5 40.49 W (50.026283, -5.674833)
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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.
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Shipwreck details
Name: GALLIER (POSSIBLY)
Length 117.3 meter, width: 16.5 meter, draught: 7.9, tonnage 4592 ton
Load: armament
Cause: built in 1914 by ropner & sons ltd, stockton-on-tees. owned at time of loss by lloyd royal belge (gt britain) ltd. three boilers, triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage le havre for barry. torpedoed by u-95. in ballast. (ww1sl & sibi).
Year of registration: 1918
Water depth above wreck: 13 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm
Known since: 1918, last detected: 2017
Details measurements/cartography: SANK 7M ENE FROM WOLF ROCK. (WW1SL). 25.9.74 WK REPD LOCATED IN 500150N, 054022W BY CORNISH WRECKING CO. ON 28.7.74. (MR MORTIMER, RECEIVER OF WK, PLYMOUTH) - NCA. H2590/76 22.3.76 NOT FOUND DURING SONAR SEARCH. (HMS HECLA, HI 1A/75). NCA. H2979/74 22.7.76 LARGE WK LOCATED IN 500135N, 054019W USING DECCA. LIES E/W, COVERING A LARGE AREA AND ON ITS SIDE ON FLAT SEABED. UNLIKELY TO BE FOUND WITHOUT THE USE OF A MAGNETOMETER. (E GILES, 1.4.76). NCA YET. HH100/351/08 4.1.94 OLD, WELL BROKEN STEEL WK LOCATED NEAR RUNNEL STONE IN 500134N, 054027W USING DECCA. COVERS A FAIRLY LARGE AREA AND HIGHEST POINT IS BOILER STOOD ON ITS END WITH LEAST DEPTH 15MTRS [HW]. LIES GENERALLY E/W IN GEN DEPTH 17-19MTRS [HW]. CARGO APPEARS TO BE ENTIRELY WW1 3 INCH AMMUNITION MADE IN DUNKIRK IN 1916 AND DESTINED FOR ROMANIA. (G LOCKETT, RNAS CULDROSE, 7.12.93). CHART AS NDW PA. BR STD. SEP 2009000029168 19.6.09 NM ACTION TO INS NDW ON BA 777.
- NM BLOCK 3483/09. 9.5.17 M/B DATASET RE-ASSESSED BY BDC 2017: LEAST M/B DEPTH 10.19MTRS IN 5001.577N, 0540.490W [WGD]. NFS. (NETSURVEY, HI 1246). AMEND DW 10.1MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: NFS
Position: 50 1.577 N,5 40.49 W
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