This is the information page about the shipwreck Ilious, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 58.732 N,1 20.765 W (54.978867, -1.346083)

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: ILIOUS

Length 75.1 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 7.7, tonnage 2020 ton

Cause: built in 182 by short brothers. owned at time of loss by lumsden, byers & co. foundered and sank three quarters of a mile e of souter point following collision with ss pierremont. 20 lost. (r young).

Year of registration: 1942

Water depth above wreck: 22 meter, Height above seabed: 124 cm

Known since: 1942, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H01771/42 12.5.42 SUNK WHEN RAMMED IN POSN 067 DEGS SOUTER PT LT HO 8C. (FOIC TYNE 12.5.42). - FNM 1052(P)/42. H01771/42 19.10.42 INS AS DW.

- NM 2267/42. 27.10.49 SURVEYED AFTER DISPERSAL. LOCATED IN 545842N, 012042W [OGB] USING HSA. SWEPT CLEAR BY OROPESA 45FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 68FT IN GEN DEPTH 80FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, SWEEP REPORT DTD 1.11.49). AMENDED TO WK 7FMS 3FT.

- NM 2201/49. 27.8.69 WK TO BE SOLD TO A MR JOHNSON FOR SALVAGE. (TELECON BOT 27.8.69). H2433/71 21.4.71 CONTACT OBTAINED ON THIS WK AND 2 CONTACTS OBTAINED 3C NNW AND 2C SW. POSSIBLY PARTS OF THIS WK. (ISS ROS DTD 31.12.70). 15.5.73 AMENDED TO WK 13.7MTRS. NC 152. 9.10.75 AMENDED TO WK 13.2MTRS. NC 152. (CHANGE OF DATUM). HH090/796/01 31.12.98 EXAM'D 28.7.98 IN 545843.5N, 012045.8W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 17.9, FOUL 18.2MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 19.0 IN GEN DEPTH 22MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 2.7MTRS. LENGTH 85MTRS, WIDTH 40MTRS. LIES 130/310 DEGS. BADLY DAMAGED WK. GENERAL AREA OF DEBRIS. POSSIBLE NETS SNAGGED ON WK. INS AS SW 17.9MTRS. (GARDLINE, HI 796). AMEND TO SW 17.9MTRS. BR STD. 27.9.99 PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT TO BE 'BEN ARDNA'. HH100/351/15 27.9.99 WK IS THAT OF 'ILIOUS'. LIES ON A HARD SANDY SEABED. WAS 8MTRS HIGH IN 1971 BUT HAS NOW COLLAPSED. BOWS ARE REASONABLY INTACT, BUT THE REST OF THE WK IS WELL BROKEN UP. BOILERS ARE STILL STANDING NEXT TO THE ENGINE BLOCK, WHICH IS SMASHED OPEN AND LYING ON ITS SIDE, SHOWING ALL OF THE LARGE BRONZE BEARINGS. WK HAS BEEN WELL SALVAGED, THE ANCHOR CHAIN AND PROP SHAFT HAVING BEEN REMOVED A LONG TIME AGO. (R YOUNG). SEP 2019///000043627 26.3.19 EXAM’D 26.3.19 IN 5458.732N, 0120.765W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 17.79MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 22MTRS. LENGTH 100.2MTRS, WIDTH 33MTRS, HT 5MTRS, ORIENTATION 124/304DEGS. HEAVILY BROKEN UP WITH SCATTERED DEBRIS. (MERITAITO, HI 1513). AMEND DW 17.7MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: HEAVILY BROKEN UP WITH SCATTERED DEBRIS

Position: 54 58.732 N,1 20.765 W

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