This is the information page about the shipwreck Highgate, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 26.337 N,0 26.581 W (54.438950, -0.443017)

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: HIGHGATE

Length 81.7 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1780 ton
Load: coal

Cause: torpedoed and sunk by german submarine. was on passage tyne to london.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 46 meter, Height above seabed: 35 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20161213

Details measurements/cartography: 1917   REPD SUNK 2.5 MILES EAST FROM SOUTH CHEEK OF ROBIN HOOD BAY. H3752/26 11.6.26 INS AS NDWPA (1918) IN 542430N, 002615W. BR STD. H4593/59 10.11.59 AMEND TO NDWPA. NC 1200. 28.8.73 AMEND TO USCPA 20MTRS. NC 129. H4069/72 3.12.75 NOT LOCATED DURING SURVEY. (RISDON BEAZLEY MARINE LTD, HN 13.11.75). DELETED. H1310/86/7 18.2.86 LOCATED IN 542620N, 002629W. IDENTIFIED FROM CROCKERY, BEAM MEASUREMENT. ENGINE DETAILS AND DATE ON WHEEL PEDESTAL. LIES ON EVEN KEEL- BRIDGE TO STERN COMPLETE. GUN ON STERN. BOW AND 2 FORWARD HOLDS ON SEABED. LEAST DEPTH (MHWS) 42MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 50MTRS. (G WADSWORTH, 26.1.86). INS AS WK 36MTRS. BR STD. H1310/86/34 16.12.86 BELL RECOVERED IN AUG 1986, CONFIRMING IDENTIFICATION. (G. WADSWORTH, 13.11.86). H6331/87 25.1.89 EXAM'D 13.8.88 IN 542620N, 002629W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 37.2, FOUL AT 37.7MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 38.0 IN GEN DEPTH 47MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 8.0MTRS, LENGTH 80MTRS, BEAM 10MTRS. LIES 030/210 DEG IN ONE PIECE. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). AMEND TO SW 37MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. HH100/351/06 13.4.93 [WGD] 542222.5N, 002628.3W. (G WADSWORTH, 1.3.93). HH100/351/09 6.6.95 BRIDGE TO STERN COMPLETE, BOW AND TWO FWD HOLDS ON SEA BED. LOT OF LARGE BRASS SHELLS ON POOP. STEAM TRIPLE EXPANSION ENGINES. TWO BOILERS, SIX PLAIN FURNACES. (A C JACKSON/C A RACEY). SEP 2017/000002822 25.5.17 EXAM'D 13.12.16 IN 5426.337N, 0026.51W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 39.92MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 47MTRS, LENGTH 79.2MTRS, WIDTH 11.6MTRS, HEIGHT 7.0MTRS, ORIENTATION 035/215 DEGS. WRECK SITS UPRIGHT ON A FLAT SEABED. WRECK HAS DECAYED WITH THE AFT HOLDS OPENED AT THE TOP AND THE FORWARD HALF OF THE SHIP HAVING COLLAPSED TO THE SEABED. (MMT, HI 1491). AMEND NDW 39MTRS IN REVISED POSITION.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 26.337 N,0 26.581 W

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