This is the information page about the shipwreck Leander, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 18.249 N,0 6.319 W (54.30415, -0.1053167)

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: LEANDER

Length 96 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 2968 ton
Load: coal

Cause: Built of steel in 1892 by the tyne shipbuilding company, n shields.owned at time of loss by kallevig & messel. norwegian flag. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 267hp, single shaft. passage hartlepool for savona. cargo coal. torpedoed and sunk by ub-57.

Year of registration: 1997

Water depth above wreck: 52 meter, Height above seabed: 61 cm

Known since: 1997, last detected: 20160217

Details measurements/cartography: TORPEDOED IN 541000N, 000400E, BUT THOUGHT TO HAVE SUNK 3 MILES N OF THAT POSN. (PILOT). HH090/730/01 16.12.97 EXAM'D 13.6.97 IN 541816.2N, 000617.4W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 48.1 IN GEN DEPTH 53.0MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 6.6MTRS. LENGTH 110MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. LIES 060/240 DEGS. LARGE, WELL DEFINED WK BROKEN IN TWO AMIDSHIPS. DEBRIS IS SCATTERED AROUND THE LOCAL AREA. A LARGE SAND MOUND 120MTRS TO THE NW IS ASSUMED TO BE BURIED DEBRIS. MAGNETIC ANOMALY NOTED. (GARDLINE, HI 730). HIGH POINT AT ONE END CASTS FIRM, NARROW SHADOW. POSSIBLY NETS OR MASTS. INS AS WK 46MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/17 25.4.0 DIVED IN 1998. A LARGE WK SAT UPRIGHT AND INTACT. DECK FILLER SEEN BEARING THE NAME 'TYNE IRON SHIPBUILDING COMPANY'. THIS PLATE GIVES THE VITAL CLUE TO THE NAME, THOUGH BY SHEER SIZE THIS COULD ONLY BE LEANDER OR LINARIA. (A C JACKSON/C A RACEY). NCA. SEP 2016/000007250 16.06.16 EXAM'D 17.02.16 IN 5418.249N, 0006.319W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 44.2 MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 52MTRS. LENGTH 108.6MTRS, WIDTH 25MTRS, HT 8.5MTRS, ORIENTATION 061/241. SCOUR LENGTH 43.5MTRS, 0.5MTRS DEEP TOWARDS 253 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY, WRECK APPEARS TO BE MAINLY INTACT, BUT HAS BROKEN UP AT THE CENTRE. (EGS, HI 1472). AMEND NDW 44MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Wreck broken midships

Position: 54 18.249 N,0 6.319 W

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