This is the information page about the shipwreck Lyra (bow section), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 44.813 N,0 7.334 E (53.569150, 0.093600)

 

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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.

 

1. Acklamd (possibly)
2. Airdrie (possibly)
3. Amenity
4. Arcona champion
5. Audacity
6. Avalon
7. B o borjesson
8. Beaconsfield
9. Bellerophon
10. Box hill
11. Boys own
12. Breitenburg
13. Brema
14. British councillor
15. British prince
16. Briton (possibly)
17. Cadmus
18. Canada
19. Chant 63
20. Chloris (possibly)
21. City of birmingham
22. Coastal fort no 1 (part of)(possibly)
23. Coastal fort no-1
24. Corinth (possibly)
25. Cramlington (possibly)
26. Cyclope
27. Dana (possibly)
28. Daphne ii
29. Dayrian
30. Deerpool (after section)
31. Deerpool (for'd section)
32. Diana
33. Diana
34. Dido
35. Dryade
36. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
37. Dunsany
38. Empress (probably)
39. Ethel (possibly)
40. Exmoor
41. Faunus
42. Feltre
43. Femke
44. Fermo
45. Forest queen
46. Fowberry tower (part)
47. Fowberry tower (part)
48. Francis
49. Georgie
50. Georgios
51. Gerhardt (possibly)
52. Girl kitty (possibly)
53. Giuseppe
54. Gothic
55. Harlech
56. Harnis (probably)
57. Helmsman (probably)
58. Hms benvolio
59. Hms calverton
60. Hms corfield
61. Hms cortina
62. Hms dervish
63. Hms egret
64. Hms fairy
65. Hms falcon (stern section)
66. Hms falmouth
67. Hms lormont
68. Hms mistletoe
69. Hms othello
70. Hms princess victoria
71. Hms remillo
72. Hms st cyrus
73. Hms strathborve (part)
74. Hms susarion
75. Hms yorkshire belle
76. Horsted
77. Hugh taylor
78. Hvitveis
79. Ida
80. Ionic (probably)
81. J b paddon
82. John and thomas
83. John mowlem
84. John rettig (probably)
85. Kalo (probably)
86. Kernoozer
87. Kimberley (possibly)
88. Kingston cameo
89. Knuthenborg
90. Kyma
91. Ladas (possibly)
92. Lady anstruther (probably)
93. Lady dinah
94. Lifeguard (possibly)
95. Longbenton (probably)
96. Lord haig (possibly)
97. Lord haig (possibly)
98. Lord selborne
99. Lottie (possibly)
100. Lucerne
101. Lyra (bow section)
102. Magdalyn ann
103. Maggie
104. Magnolia (probably)
105. Mangalore (part of)(possibly)
106. Marian francis
107. Markersdall (probably)
108. Marshall (probably)
109. Modig
110. Modiva (possibly)
111. Monimia (possibly)
112. Nadod (possibly)
113. Nimrod
114. Odessa
115. Onward (possibly)
116. Ophir ii (possibly)
117. Orsa
118. Otis tetrax
119. Paraciers
120. Peebles (possibly)
121. Peggotty
122. Portia
123. Ravonia (part)
124. Ravonia (part) (possibly)
125. Rayford
126. Realf
127. Reculver
128. Retriever
129. Revi
130. Rhuys
131. Rievaulx abbey
132. Rivaulx
133. River don (part of)(probably)
134. River witham
135. Sagacity
136. Salacon
137. Salmondby
138. Saltoun
139. Sandra glen
140. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
141. Sna iii
142. Sota eduardo
143. Stanburn
144. Teano
145. Tees
146. Thessaly
147. Thomas deas
148. Togston (possibly)
149. Tredegar hall
150. Triton
151. Uc 39
152. Uc 47
153. Uc 75
154. Umbe
155. Upminster (possibly)
156. Varangmalm (possibly)
157. Venture (possibly)
158. Ville de valenciennes
159. Wayside flower (possibly)
160. Whitemantle (possibly)
161. William hanson
162. Windsor (part of)
163. Windsor (part of)
164. Winga
165. Xavier
166. Xavier
167. Zeemermin

 

Name: LYRA (BOW SECTION)

Length 72.5 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1141 ton
Load: fertiliser: natural and products,chemicals

Cause: built in 1917 by akties. moss voerft. owned at time of loss by c t gogstad & co. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 97nhp, single shaft. passage skien for rouen. cargo nitrate of soda. torpedoed or mined.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 15 meter, Height above seabed: 33 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20200917

Details measurements/cartography: H6761/17 POSN PA 534156N, 000758E. - FNM 676/17 H3849/18 26.8.18 NOTHING FOUND. (VAEC). H8301/22 18.12.22 POSN WITHERNSEA LT HO 072 DEGS 3.4 MILES. (TH NM 78/22). INS AS DW (1922) IN 534500N, 000700E WITH LT BUOY 100 YDS E.

- NM 44/23. H5886/23 27.8.23 DW IN 534454N, 000725E WITH LT BUOY CLOSE E. (TH NM 58/23). AMEND POSN.

- NM 1419/23. H609/24 24.1.24 LEAST DEPTH 43 FT LWST, BUOY REMOVED. (TH 24.1.24). AMEND TO WK 7FMS. DELETE BUOY.

- NM 205/24. 20.3.72 AMEND TO WK 13MTRS. NC 121. 9.5.74 AMEND TO WK 12.3 MTRS [LAT]. NC'S 109 & 121. H3805/72 28.2.78 BOW SECTION ONLY. IDENTIFIED POSITIVELY AS LYRA BY LOCAL DIVER. ALUMINIUM INGOTS FOUND IN VICINITY. (SOISS, HI 54/77). H1287/78/302 19.10.78 LOCATED IN 534425N, 000745E USING DECCA. WELL DISPERSED. ENGINE & BOILER ONLY STANDING. (M OXLADE, 12.9.78). SEP 2021/000166150 4.9.20 EXAM’D 17.9.20 IN 5344.813N, 0007.334E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 12.27MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 15MTRS. LENGTH 69.2MTRS, WIDTH 19.2MTRS, HT 2.7MTRS. ORIENTATION 033/213 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 29.9MTRS, WIDTH 37.5MTRS, 0.7MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 222 DEGS. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI 1587). HEAVILY BROKEN UP WITH 2 BOILERS VISIBLE. AMEND DW 12.2MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WEL DISPERSED, 2 BOILERS STILL STANDING

Position: 53 44.813 N,0 7.334 E

 

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