This is the information page about the shipwreck Glamorgan coast, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 7.785 N,5 42.559 W (50.27365, -5.4894666666667)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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.
Name: GLAMORGAN COAST
Length 61 meter, width: 9.6 meter, draught: 3.8, tonnage 684 ton
Load: general and mixed goods
Cause: ex-channel trader. built in 1913 by smiths dock co ltd, middlesbrough. owned at time of loss by coast lines ltd. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 171 nhp, single shaft. passage bristol for penzance. drove ashore in thick fog off cape cornwall. (sibi).
Year of registration: 1932
Water depth above wreck: 2 meter
Known since: 1932, last detected: 2011
Details measurements/cartography: H2959/73 20.8.73 H2959/73 20.8.73 FOUND IN 500745N, 054230W [OGB] (ESTIMATED FROM 2.5INCH ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP). GULLEY IN ROCKS POINTING TO WRECK BOILER LYING IN ABOUT 20FT OF WATER, ENGINE LYING INSHORE. SOME SECTIONS OF HULL SEEN AND WHOLE AREA COVERED WITH SEA WHIP AND METAL MUCH SCATTERED. (MR GILES). POSN FOR FILING ONLY. 13.12.11 13.12.11 NOT LOCATED 12.12.10 USING M/B. NOT WITHIN NAVIGABLE AREA. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 50 7.785 N,5 42.559 W