This is the information page about the shipwreck Gro, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 12.318 N,3 32.055 W (50.207816666667, -3.7034)

 

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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. Aldershot
2. Ambassador
3. Amelie (probably)
4. Amelie-suzanne
5. Ann marie (possibly)
6. Antonio (probably)
7. Avalon g ii
8. Ave
9. Baychattan
10. Belle ile (possibly)
11. Bleamoor (probably)
12. Blue marlin
13. Bretagne
14. Bretton hall
15. Broadmayne (part of)
16. Brunhilda
17. Buesten
18. Bull steamer (possibly)
19. Cantabria
20. Catherine allen
21. Chloe t
22. Christoffel colombus (possibly)
23. Claverley (possibly)
24. Colorado (possibly)
25. Demetrios
26. Dudley rose
27. Eagle
28. Elsa
29. Elsa (possibly)
30. Emma
31. Emsstrom
32. Farn
33. Fiona mary
34. Flourish
35. Garm (possibly)
36. Gefion
37. Girl barbara
38. Glocliffe
39. Glory
40. Greatham
41. Greleen
42. Grelhame (probably)
43. Gro
44. Halloween
45. Haugastol (possibly)
46. Havbris (probably)
47. Hazelpark (possibly)
48. Herzogin cecilie
49. Heye p
50. Hildegard (possibly)
51. Hms benton castle
52. Hms chorley (possibly)
53. Hms crocodile
54. Hms jasper (possibly)
55. Hms newbridge (probably)
56. Hms penylan (e part)
57. Hms penylan (w part)
58. Hms picton castle
59. Hms savage
60. Hmsm d1
61. Irma germaine (possibly)
62. Jade star gypsy
63. Jordan a
64. Karen marie (probably)
65. Kendal castle
66. Laertes
67. Lb 332 or lb 362 (possibly)
68. Les mercenaires
69. Liberta
70. Lofoten (probably)
71. Lord stewart
72. Marana (bow section)
73. Marie des isles
74. Medina
75. Mudstomper (probably)
76. Murree
77. Neches (probably)
78. Newholm
79. North sea (probably)
80. Northville (possibly)
81. Perm (possibly)
82. Peronne
83. Placidas faroult
84. Quest
85. Rayder
86. Riversdale
87. Rota
88. Sarah jayne
89. Sevilla
90. Shirley betty
91. Skaala
92. Soudan
93. Stanhope
94. Ster de zee (possibly)
95. Taeping
96. Talvaldis (possibly)
97. Two sisters
98. U 214 (probably)
99. Uc 49 (probably)
100. Uc 51
101. Uskmoor (probably)
102. Visborg (possibly)
103. W.s.w. one
104. Waikawa (possibly)
105. Warsaw
106. Wreathier
107. Yvette bm217

 

Name: GRO

Length 94.5 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 2667 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-ros, ex-alagonia. built in 1895 by w hamilton & co. owned at time of loss by biorn biornstad & co. two boilers, triple expansin engine of 241 nhp, single shaft. machiney by rankin & blackmore, greenock. passage the clyde for rouen. torpedoed by uc-47.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 60 meter, Height above seabed: 19 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: H4551/76 5.1.77 POSN GIVEN AS 104DEGS, 4.3M FROM START POINT. (RISDON BEAZLEY, 1954 SURVEY). NCA. H2396/77 14.3.77 WRECK LOCATED 4M ESE OF START POINT IN 501218N, 033200W USING DECCA. ABOUT 300FT LONG BY SONAR. LYING ABOUT SW/NE. UPRIGHT. RISE ABOUT 40FT. LEAST DEPTH BY E/S 153FT REDUCED, BUT IT WAS A SIDE ECHO. SEABED GEN DEPTH ABOUT 200FT. DIVED IN 1973. THIS WK LIES ABOUT 170DEGS, 1100FT FROM THE 'MEDINA' [18063]. FROM THE BUILDERS PLATE RECOVERED IN 1973, THIS WK IDENTIFIED AS THE NORWEGIAN SHIP 'GRO'. (RISDON BEAZLEY, 10.2.77). CHART AS WK 46MTRS [26FMS]. BR STD. H2061/82 13.9.82 EXAM'D 26.4.83 IN 501212N, 033204W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 52 IN GEN DEPTH 60MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 10MTRS. LIES NE/SW. GOOD SONAR CONTACT. (HMS HERALD, HI 132). CHART AS WK 50MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 7.5.13 EXAM'D 19.1.13 IN 5012.318N, 0332.055W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 48.38 IN GEN DEPTH 60.9MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 93MTRS, WIDTH 14MTRS, HT 12.2MTRS. LIES 019/199 DEGS WITH BOWS NNE. INTACT, UPRIGHT. IN GOOD CONDITION. (NETSURVEY, HI 1369). AMEND WK 48MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, BOWS NNE

Position: 50 12.318 N,3 32.055 W

 

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