This is the information page about the shipwreck Hare (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 24.027 N,5 42.931 W (53.625166666667, -5.4926666666667)

 

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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. Anteros
2. Balthazar
3. Benaiah
4. Bolivar
5. Bolivar (fwd part)(probably)
6. County of lancaster
7. Cresswell (probably)
8. Downshire (possibly)
9. Fern (probably)
10. Flying dart
11. Glenorchy (possibly)
12. Hare (probably)
13. Hibernia (possibly)
14. Hms deliverer
15. Hms vanguard
16. Innisfallen
17. Leinster
18. Marlay
19. Nellie esplin
20. Noranya
21. Normandiet
22. Palmella (possibly)
23. Peaceful star
24. Polwell (probably)
25. Rose mystique
26. Rose of lough gill
27. Salaminia (probably)
28. Sharelga
29. Sir charles napier
30. St ibar
31. St michan (possibly)
32. Tayleur
33. The marquis
34. U-1051
35. Vesper (possibly)
36. W m barkley (possibly)
37. Wisemans

 

Name: HARE (PROBABLY)

Length 65.8 meter, width: 8.8 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 774 ton
Load: foodstuffs: solid,general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1886 by barclay, curle & co ltd, glasgow. owned at time of loss by george lowen, manchester. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 218 nhp, single shaft. passage manchester for dublin. torpedoed by u-62. 12 men lost. (sii).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 58 meter, Height above seabed: 55 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2015

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 6.5MILES E (MAG) OF KISH LTV. (M81207). H5141/53 14.8.53 INS AS NDWPA. NC 1411. 13.4.79 AMEND TO USCPA 35.0MTRS IN 32100N, 054500W. NE 1468. H1935/80 7.2.83 EXAM'D 17.11.81 IN 532400N, 054253W [OGB] USING RO/RO HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 50 IN GEN DEPTH 53MTRS. SCOUR 6MTRS DEEP. DCS3 HT 4MTRS, LENGTH ABOUT 60MTRS. LYING NNE/SSW. WELL ENTRENCHED IN ITS SCOUR. PARTICULARLY GOOD SONAR CONTACT FROM N & S. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 3). BR STD. 4.5.07 WK LOCATED IN 5324.027N, 0542.931W [WGD] USING DGPS. GEN DEPTH 65MTRS. LENGTH 45MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS, HT 10.7MTRS. (INSS SURVEY 1999-2005). LIES 055/235 DEGS. INTACT AND WELL BURIED IN OWN SCOUR. CONSIDER HT WAS MEASURED FROM BOTTOM OF SCOUR. RETAIN AS WK 50MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. SEP 2010/000142275 9.8.11 LOCATED IN 5324.026N, 0542.931W [WGD]. (GSI SURVEY CV10_01, DRAFT REPORT DTD 5.2010). INTACT, COLLAPSED. LENGTH APPROX 72MTRS. NCA. SEP 2014/000061894 25.3.14 LEAST DEPTH 65.06MTRS. (IRISH WK RECORDS). NCA. 10.4.14 LEAST DEPTH 53.05 IN GEN DEPTH 58.6MTRS. (IRISH WK RECORDS, REVISED LIST). AMEND WK 53MTRS. SEP 2015/000263012 7.3.16 WK 52.13MTRS IN 5324.027N, 0542.931W [WGD]. (GSI IRELAND WK RECORDS, CV10_01). AMEND TO NDW 52MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, COLLAPSED, WELL SETTLED IN ITS OWN SCOUR

Position: 53 24.027 N,5 42.931 W

 

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