This is the information page about the shipwreck Harrow (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 29.003 N,0 28.822 W (54.4542667, -0.3978333)
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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: HARROW (PROBABLY)
Length 81.7 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1777 ton
Load: coal
Cause: Built 1900 by s.p. austin & son, sunderland, with 3 cylinder triple expansion engine of 194nhp, 2 boilers, single shaft. machinery by w. allen & co., sunderland. owned at time of loss by cory colliers ltd. passage granton for london. torpedoed by german submarine ub 41 with the loss of 2 of 20 crew. (sibi, shipwrecks of the ne coast, wrecksite.eu)
Year of registration: 1917
Water depth above wreck: 48 meter, Height above seabed: 215 cm
Known since: 1917, last detected: 20161213
Details measurements/cartography: POSITIONS REPORTED IN 1917 WERE WHITBY HIGH LIGHT 299DEGS, 2.3M, OR 4M SE FROM WHITBY. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED) H4069/72 4.12.75 WK LOCATED IN 542900N, 002825W USING DECCA. STANDS 25FT ABOVE SEABED. (RISDON BEAZLEY MARINE LTD, HN 13.11.75). INS AS WK 34MTRS.
- NM BLOCK. H6331/87 25.1.89 EXAM'D 8.8.88 IN 542900N, 002842W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 41 IN GEN DEPTH 48MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 7.0MTRS. LENGTH 82MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS. LIES 030/210 DEGS. BROKEN AND WITH HIGH POINT AT SW END. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). AMEND TO WK 41MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. HH100/351/09 6.6.95 BOW AND MIDSHIPS UPSIDE DOWN AND SPLIT. ONE BOILER VISIBLE WITH TWO FURNACES AND ONE DONKEY BOILER. STERN ON PORT SIDE. LARGE STEEL PROP AND SPARE ON SEABED. AUX STEERING WHEEL IN POSN WITH STEEL BOSS. TOILETS AND SINK ON SEABED. WELL HIT AMIDSHIPS. SCATTERED WRECKAGE ON SEABED AFT. (A C JACKSON & C A RACEY).EUT POSN: 5429.011N, 0028.802W. NE 134. 16.4.09 THIS WRECK IS PROBABLY HARROW, IDENTITY BASED ON ON LENGTH, POSN OF LOSS, SOME MATCHING MACHINERY, AND CORRESPONDING DAMAGE AT STERN OF WK. (C RACEY, E-MAIL DTD 14.4.09) SEP 2017/000002822 24.5.17 EXAM'D 13.12.16 IN 5429.003N, 0028.822W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 40.21MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 48MTRS. LENGTH 86.4MTRS, WIDTH 15.2MTRS, HT 7.93MTRS, ORIENTATION 215/035 DEGS. WK IS INVERTED, HULL COLLAPSED ALONG WK'S LENGTH. (MMT, HI 1491). AMEND NDW 40MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 54 29.003 N,0 28.822 W