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 33.634 N,0 39.946 W (54.560567, -0.665767)

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 71.6 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 1295 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1909 by bergenske dampskibsaelskeb, bergen, with one boiler, triple expansion engine of 144hp, single shaft. machinery by bergens mek vaerks, bergen. owned at time of loss by the admiralty. passage the tyne for newhaven. torpedoed by ub-21. 12 of 20 crew lost. (ll ww1 & sibi)

Year of registration: 1988

Water depth above wreck: 41 meter, Height above seabed: 160 cm

Known since: 1988, last detected: 20170106

Details measurements/cartography: H6331/87 23.1.89 WK EXAM'D 19.6.88 IN 543339N, 003951E [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [3 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 36.1, FOUL AT 36.6MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 36.5 IN GEN DEPTH 42MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 6.6MTRS, LENGTH 73MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. LIES 165/345DEG AND IS WELL BROKEN UP. HIGH POINT IS CLOSE TO S END. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). BR STD. HH100/351/08 24.6.94 LOCATED IN 543341N, 003955W [WGD]. DEPTH 40 IN GEN DEPTH 44MTRS. VESSEL IDENTIFIED BY NAME ON BELL "HERCULES 1909 BERGEN". LIES ON PORT SIDE, BROKEN UP. ANCHOR WINCH STANDS VERTICAL, BOILER ROLLED OVER APPROX 100DEGS. ENGINE ON ITS PORT SIDE PUSHED UP AGAINST BACK OF BOILER. (P P G WADSWORTH). HH100/351/09 8.6.95 STEAM TRIPLE EXPANSION ENGINE. WELL SPREAD ON SEABED. (A C JACKSON & C A RACEY). 30.8.01 EUT POSN: 5433.659N, 0039.951W. NE 134. SEP 2015/000095701 1.6.15 EXAM'D BY BDC 37.06MTRS IN 5433.663N, 0039.959W [WGD]. NFS. (CEFAS SURVEY, DS9). NCA. SEP 2017/000002822 3.5.17 EXAM'D 06.01.17; IN 5433.634N, 0039.946W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 36.34MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 41MTRS, LENGTH 71.2MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS, HEIGHT 6.06MTRS, ORIENTATION 160/340 DEGS. WRECK IS IN A SEVERE STATE OF DECAY AND PARTLY BROKEN UP WITH THE BOW LYING DISJOINTED FROM THE MAIN BODY OF THE WRECK. (MMT, HI 1491). AMEND NDW 36MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 33.634 N,0 39.946 W

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