This is the information page about the shipwreck Leon, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 35.678 N,1 4.028 W (50.594633, -1.067133)

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: LEON

Length 89.9 meter, width: 12.9 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 2451 ton
Load: coal,coke

Cause: built of steel in 1895 by w pickergill & sons ltd of sunderland. owned at time of loss by cie des vapeurs, nantais. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 220nhp, single screw. crew of 34. passage london for tunis. torpedoed and sunk by uc-75. 4 crew lost when boat capsized.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 25 meter, Height above seabed: 238 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20161114

Details measurements/cartography: H827/18 WRECK LOCATED IN 503600N, 010200W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). CHART AS WK [OLD SYMBOL]. H3287/24 12.5.24 AMENDED TO DW. H4665/32 6.7.32 WRECK NOT FOUND. (TH 1928). NCA YET. H(W)202/50 24.6.55 A FIRM NON-SUB ECHO OBTAINED IN 503606N, 010124W, 215DEGS, 4.8M FROM NAB TOWER. (HMS MARVEL). H4607/28 17.12.59 NO OBSTN LOCATED. (TH). DELETED.

- NM ACTION. H5808/55 24.2.56 NOW CHARTED AS NDW PA. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 2045. 28.3.72 NOW CHARTED AS USC PA 15MTRS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NC 2045. H2318/74 19.9.75 CONFIRMED BY SPITHEAD MARINE SALVAGE CO (R J TODD) AS THE 'LEON' IN 503600N, 010158W. (SCES, 11.8.75). H1288/75 10.10.75 WRECK IS UPRIGHT, STANDING 30FT HIGH AND LIES N/S. (R J TODD, 7.9.75). H2318/74 9.5.79 WK EXAM'D 21.3.79, IN 503536N, 010359W [OGB] DURING HYDROSEARCH TRIALS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 18 IN GEN DEPTH 25-27MTRS. NO SCOUR. SONAR HT 9.3MTRS, LENGTH 107MTRS. LIES 060/240DEGS. PRESUMED TO BE WK PREVIOUSLY CHARTED IN 503600N, 010200W, APPROX, AS NOTHING WAS FOUND IN THAT POSN. (HMS BULLDOG, 29.4.79). CHART AS WK 16MTRS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 1205/79. H1310/83/12 18.3.83 LOCATED DURING DCS3 SURVEY. (SOUTH COAST SHIPPING CO LTD, 15.2.83). NCA. H1310/87/9 6.3.87 DIVED ON IN 1985. VERY BROKEN UP - PROBABLY AS RESULT OF SALVAGE WORK. THE HIGHEST PART WAS BOILER WHICH STANDS ABOUT 4MTRS ABOVE SEABED. UNABLE TO CONFIRM IDENTITY. (M PRITCHARD, 16.2.87). NCA. HH100/351/03 31.8.90 DIVED IN 503539N, 010406W. HIGHEST PART IS STERN WHICH STANDS 7.5MTRS HIGH. (D C FOX). NCA. HH090/962/01 3.12.02 LOCATED IN 5035.662N, 0104.073W [WGD] USING DGPS. STANDS 3MTRS HIGH BY E/S BUT THIS MAY NOT BE THE LEAST DEPTH. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. NOT INVESTIGATED WITH DCS3. LIES WITHIN AREA NOT FULLY SURVEYED DUE TO FISHING GEAR. IDENTIFED BY M WOODWARD AS 'POLO'. (GARDLINE, HI 962). RETAIN AS WK 16MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. SEP 2016/000165703 14.11.16 EXAM'D 14.11.16 IN 5035.678N, 0104.028W [WGD]. LEAST M\B DEPTH 18.89MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 25MTRS. LENGTH 109MTRS, WIDTH 30MTRS, HT 6.6MTRS, ORIENTATION 058/238 DEGS. WK IS REASONABLY WELL BROKEN UP. HULL PLATES HAVE COLLAPSED ONTO SEABED. (MMT UK, HI 1499). AMEND DW 18.8MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN UP

Position: 50 35.678 N,1 4.028 W

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