This is the information page about the shipwreck Greleen, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 27.654 N,3 13.847 W (50.460900, -3.230783)

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: GRELEEN

Length 95.4 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 6.7, tonnage 2286 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore

Cause: ex-ballater, ex-blairmore. built in 1894 by harland & wolff, blefast. owned at time of loss by haenton shipping co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 245 nhp, single shaft. passage bilbao for middleborough. torpedoed by ub-40. 19 men lost. (ww1sl, dods & sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 38 meter, Height above seabed: 130 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2015

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 7M E BY N FROM BERRY HEAD. (WW1SL). H6025/39 22.8.39 WK IN APPROX 502736N, 031345W. (HMS GLEANER). CHART AS NDW PA. BR STD. H2502/51 24.4.51 WK IN 502739N, 031345W. LEAST DEPTH 15FMS, HEIGHT ABOVE SEABED 41FT. GOOD SONAR RESPONSE. (HMS SEAGULL, 1950). AMEND TO WK 15FMS [27MTRS] IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. PROBABLY 1914-18 WRECK. (MR RITCHIE, BSAC, EXETER BRANCH). NCA. H1310/81 1.9.81 IDENTIFIED AS GRELEEN, EX-BALLATER BY BELL, WHICH WAS RECOVERED BY TEIGNMOUTH DIVER, 2 OR 3 YEARS AGO. (A HILLGROVE, 31.8.81). NCA. H5982/82 9.2.83 WK SHOWN IN 502742N, 031344W USING DECCA. (KINGFISHER CHART K(SW)2, 1982). NCA. H2923/83 16.11.84 EXAM'D 20.5.84 IN 502738N, 031347W [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 29MTRS, FOUL AT 29.5MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 30.3MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 40MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 9MTRS, LENGTH 100MTRS, BEAM 12MTRS. LYING 135/315DEGS. (GARDLINE SURVEY LTD, HI 202). AMEND TO SW 29MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. SEP 2015/00019320 6.7.15 EXAM'D 10.3.15 LEAST M/B DEPTH 30.8MTRS IN 5027.654N, 0313.847W [WGD], GEN DEPTHS 38MTRS. LENGTH 103.5MTRS, WIDTH 17.7MTRS, HEIGHT 8.5MTRS. ORIENTATION 130/310 DEGS. UPRIGHT AND PARTIALLY INTACT. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (MMT, HI 1453). AMEND TO NDW 30.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: PARTIALLY INTACT, UPRIGHT

Position: 50 27.654 N,3 13.847 W

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