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 (50.27365, -5.4894666666667)

 

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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. A a raven
2. Acklington
3. Aida lauro
4. Alacrity
5. Alden gifford (possibly)
6. Alster (possibly)
7. Antwerpen
8. Arbel (probably)
9. Arnside (possibly)
10. Asia
11. Aurelien
12. Austria (possibly)
13. Balbec
14. Bard (possibly)
15. Besse (probably)
16. Bessemer city (probably)
17. Bill (part of)(possibly)
18. Bill (possibly)
19. Boynton (possibly)
20. Busby
21. Carpo (possibly)
22. Chimu
23. Christina
24. Christos markettos
25. City of cardiff
26. City of westminster (& kul)
27. Congener
28. Conqueror
29. Corvus
30. Courtown
31. Denebola
32. Depois
33. Devon
34. Dunaskin
35. Dux (possibly)
36. Emblem
37. Empire flamingo (for'd section)
38. Empire kingsley
39. Enrico parodi
40. Facto
41. Fanny lambert
42. Gallier (possibly)
43. Garthclyde (possibly)
44. Gemini
45. Glamorgan coast
46. Glendale
47. Helene (probably)
48. Hellopes
49. Hms royalo
50. Hms warspite
51. Hms warspite (part of)
52. Holland xix
53. Hopeful (possibly)
54. Iona
55. J duncan
56. Jose de aramburu
57. Joshua nicholson
58. Juan ferrer
59. Juanita
60. Kate thomas (possibly)
61. Kildonan ?
62. Kilmaho
63. Kintuck
64. Ladywood
65. Lake grafton
66. Lake grafton (possibly)
67. Liberty
68. Lincoln
69. Lovat
70. Luna
71. Lutece (part of)(possibly)
72. Luxembourg (probably)
73. Lyminge
74. Madeline
75. Maria de larrinaga
76. Marie roberts
77. Maroc
78. Moorview
79. Mystique (possibly)
80. Nanna (possibly)
81. New pioneer
82. Nile
83. Noya (possibly)
84. Ocean harvest
85. Orion
86. Oriskany
87. Phoenix 202
88. Phoenix 203
89. Pioneer (possibly)
90. Polesley (possibly)
91. Ponthieu
92. Primo ?
93. Primrose (remains of)(possibly)
94. Regency (probably)
95. Reidar (possibly)
96. Rms mulheim
97. Saint guenole
98. Saxon briton
99. Sea viper
100. Setubel(probably)
101. Sirius (possibly)
102. St chamond
103. Stabil (possibly)
104. Sylvia-mary z-525
105. Thorsa (part of)(possibly)
106. Traute sarnow
107. Tungufoss
108. Tyrhaug
109. U 1209 (possibly)
110. U 247 (possibly)
111. U 399
112. Umbre
113. Underwood
114. Union star (parts of)(probably)
115. Veghtstroom (possibly)
116. Vigrid (possibly)
117. Vine branch (possibly)
118. Vinovia
119. Wild boar
120. William cory
121. Yewcroft
122. Zone (probably)

 

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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