This is the information page about the shipwreck Holyhead, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 25.883 N,5 17.367 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.

 

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Name: Holyhead

Length 91.4 meter, width: 10 meter, draught: 3.6, tonnage 842 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,personnel,animals (land & sea) and birds

Cause: built in 1883 by r duncan & co ltd, port glasgow. owned at time of loss by the london, north western railway. one boiler, compound expansion engine, single shaft. passage dublin for holyhead. sank following collision with german barque alhambra, liverpool for new york with 700 tons coal, which altered across her bows. the barque was cut in two and sank at one with the loss of 18 lives. holyhead settled and sank within 20 minutes with the loss of two crew. (sibi).positional analysis: the position given in shipping casualties (bot 1883-84, p130) for the site of the collision plots 8nm ne of this wreck.archival analysis: alhambra also sank in the collision, having been cut in half. as a timber built ship, it seems unlikely much, if any of it would show up on marine survey. indeed, there is no candidate wreck in the mbes dataset. holyhead was damaged forward and sank 20 minutes after the collision. it should be noted the fore section ofthis wreck appears to be the more damaged.

Year of registration: 1977

Water depth above wreck: 89 meter, Height above seabed: 140 cm

Known since: 1977, last detected: 20190515

Details measurements/cartography: 1.6.77 SANK 15M OFF SOUTH STACK. (N WALES SHIPWRECKS). NOT KNOWN WHAT WAS DIRECTION 'OFF'. POSN QUOTED 531824N, 044200W IS SOUTH STACK. FOR FILING ONLY. H4466/81 12.4.84 EXAM'D 10.11.83 IN 532553N, 051722W [OGB] USING HIFIX.6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 82 IN GEN DEPTH 89MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 8MTRS, LENGTH APPROX 60MTRS. LYING 140/320 DEG, BOWS NW, POSSIBLY ON ITS SIDE. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 95). BR STD. 24.2.23 WRECK SURVEYED 15/5/2019: MBES DATA SHOWS PARTIALLY UPRIGHT SS LENGTH 91MTRS, WIDTH 10.5MTRS. BOW SECTION MIGHT BE UPSIDE DOWN AND IS PARTIALLY BURIED IN SAND WAVE WHICH APPEARS TO BE CREATED BY TIDE WORKING ON WK. POSITIONALLY, DIMENSIONALLY AND ARCHIVALLY THIS WRECK IS CONSISTENT WITH VESSEL "HOLYHEAD". EVIDENCE OF TWIN SCREWS IN POINTCLOUD SAME AS "HOLYHEAD". (INNES MCCARTNEY BOOK "ECHOES FROM THE DEEP"). UPDATE "HOLYHEAD" AND ATTRIBUTES.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BOWS NW, POSSIBLY ON ITS SIDE

Position: 53 25.883 N,5 17.367 W

 

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