This is the information page about the shipwreck Loweswater, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 34.847 N,4 14.371 W (53.3825, -4.2246833333333)

 

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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: LOWESWATER

Length 53 meter, width: 9.1 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 633 ton
Load: coal

Cause: 21.12.1894 vessel, departed from garston, liverpool, for santos, brazil, on 21.12.1894 under tow of tug knight templar. tow was cast off near the skerries during a violent storm. nothing further heard of vessel until 3 boats and 2 bodies were washed ashore at hoylake, mostyn and seaforth. (k hurley).

Year of registration: 1939

Water depth above wreck: 48 meter, Height above seabed: 23 cm

Known since: 1939, last detected: 20210810

Details measurements/cartography: H6022/39 16.11.39 WK LOCATED AUG 1939 IN POSN 010.25 DEG, 9.91M FROM POINT LYNAS LTHO. LEAST E/S DEPTH 22 IN GEN DEPTH 27FMS. (HMS GLEANER, 10.8.1939). BR STD. H2704/59 22.5.59 AMEND POSN TO 533443N, 041440W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NC 1977. 2.11.73 AMEND TO WK 40MTRS. NC 1977. H3838/86 18.4.88 EXAM'D 26.11.87 IN 533450N, 011417W [OGB] USING HIFIX.6 [3 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 40.8 IN GEN DEPTH 50MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 51.3MTRS. DCS3 HT 7MTRS, LENGTH ABOUT 70MTRS. LIES N/S. MAGNETOMETER INDICATES FERROUS CONTACT. (HMS FOX, HI 357). AMEND POSN. BR STD. HH100/351/04 26.7.91 DIVED IN CHARTED POSN ON 20.7.91. BELL RECOVERED, ENGRAVED 'LOWESWATER'. LIES WITH BOW N. 20MTRS OF BOW SECTION BROKEN OFF AND LYING HARD ON ITS STBD SIDE. LARGE SECTION OF STERN LIES OVER ON ITS PORT SIDE. HIGHEST POINT APPEARS TO BE PORT RAILS OF BOW SECTION. NO EVIDENCE SEEN OF MOTIVE POWER. NO BOILERS, STEAM PIPES, PROPELLERS, PADDLES OR MASTS, EXCEPT FOR THE JIB-BOOM EXTENDING FROM BOWSPRIT. (K HURLEY, 25.7.91). SEP2022/000028019 12.04.22 EXAM'D 10.08.2021; IN 5334.847N, 0414.371W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 39.81MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 48MTRS. LENGTH 65.3MTRS, WIDTH 26.2MTRS, HEIGHT 9.2MTRS, ORIENTATION 023/203 DEGS. WELL DEGRADED WRECK, WITH STERN VISIBLE. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI1507 - H525-7366). AMEND NDW 39MTRS IN NREVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Well degraded wreck, with stern visible.

Position: 53 34.847 N,4 14.371 W

 

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