This is the information page about the shipwreck Hercules, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 10.873 N,0 9.667 W (54.1812167, -0.1611167)

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: HERCULES

Length 64.3 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1095 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Torpedoed and sunk by german submarine ub 21.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 27 meter

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20161702

Details measurements/cartography: H1741/18 POSN 541010N, 000915W. 4M NNW FROM FLAMBOROUGH HEAD. - FNM 235/18. H1741/18 WK NOT VISIBLE BUT BUOYED. - FNM 235/18. H5039/18 25.9.18 0FMS OVER WK, BUOY WITHDRAWN. INS AS WK 10FMS (1918). - FNM 616/18. 10.4.24 AMEND TO NDW. BR STD. 21.6.72 AMEND TO WK 18.2MTRS. NC 129. 5.12.74 AMEND TO WK 17.0MTRS. (CHANGE OF DATUM). NC 129. H1283/76/107 1.4.76 LYING IN APPROX 100FT OF WATER. APPEARS TO BE BADLY BROKEN UP BUT MOST OF IT STILL REMAINS. (A GODFREY, LTR DATED 29.3.76). H1310/84/43 27.6.86 REPD IN 40946N, 000915W. POSN FRO DECCA. (MR DODGSON 28.11.84). H1310/86/20 7.8.86 WK IN 541019N, 000933W, POSSIBLY HERCULES. E/S INDICATES STANDING 3 TO 4 MTRS ABOVE SEABED. UNDERWATER VISIBILITY VERY LIMITED. ONE LARGE AND ONE SMALL ADMIRALTY PATTERN ANCHOR FOUND. LARGER HAD SHANK 3.5MTRS LONG. (B WINFIELD, 26.7.86). NCA. HH090/730/01 19.11.97 NOT SURVEYED AS LIES WITHIN FISHING AREA EXCLUSION ZONE. (GARDLINE, HI 730). NCA. HH100/351/13 30.4.98 LIES IN 541051N, 000937W [WGD] BY GPS. LEAST DEPTH 26MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 30MTRS. INFORMATION FROM FILEY DIVING CLUB, WHO SAY THERE ARE THREE WRECKS IN THE VICINITY. (A C JACKSON & C A RACEY, LTR DTD 14.4.98). INS AS WK 25MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2016/00007250 24.05.16 EXAM'D 17.2.16 IN 5410.873N, 0009.667E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 24.2 MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 27MTRS. SCOUR LENGTH 82.3MTRS, 1.2MTRS DEEP TOWARDS 071DEGS. LENGTH 81.7 MTRS, WIDTH 18.03 MTRS, HT 3.7 MTRS, ORIENTATION 254/074. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. WK BROKEN APART WITH DEBRIS TO THE SOUTH. AREAS OF SCOUR ALL AROUND WK. (EGS, HI472). AMEND TO DW 24.2MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 10.873 N,0 9.667 W

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