This is the information page about the shipwreck Greldon (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 50.784 N,5 35.42 W (52.604766666667, -5.5701166666667)

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.

Name: GRELDON (POSSIBLY)

Length 99.1 meter, width: 14.3 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 3322 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-dartmouth. built in 1903 by richardson, duck & co ltd, stockton-on-tees. owned at time of loss by dulcia ss co ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 280 nhp, single shaft. machinery by blair & co ltd, stockton. passage liverpool for italy. torpedoed by u-96. 28 men lost. (sii).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 67 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 1982

Details measurements/cartography: TORPEDOED 7M ENE FROM N. ARKLOW LTV. (WW1SL). H1935/80 11.10.82 H1935/80 11.10.82 LARGE WK EXAM'D 16.7.81 IN 525047N, 053523W [OGB] USING RO/RO HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 62 IN GEN DEPTH 67MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 4MTRS. DCS3 HT 5MTRS, LENGTH APPROX 60MTRS. LYING ALMOST E/W. GIVES GOOD SONAR RETURNS FROM E. CONSIDERABLE SCOURS TO THE S OF THE WK. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 3). INS AS WK 62MTRS. BR STD. [WGD] POSN: 5250.784N, 0535.420W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 50.784 N,5 35.42 W

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