This is the information page about the shipwreck Malleny (or malleney), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 27.614 N,3 39.103 W (51.21105, -3.4662333333333)

 

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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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17. Malleny (or malleney)
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31. Strombus (part of)
32. Strombus (part of)
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Name: MALLENY (OR MALLENEY)

Length 62.5 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 1053 ton
Load: coal

Cause: vessel, owned at time of loss by hughes & co. wrecked on tusker rock. all crew lost. (dods). vessel, [name given as malleney], built in 1868 by t royden & sons, liverpool. owned at time of loss by c pierce of bangor. on passage cardiff for rio de janeiro. all 20 crew lost. (sibi). account of loss. (shipwrecks of the bristol channel)

Year of registration: 1929

Water depth above wreck: 2 meter

Known since: 1929, last detected: 20180222

Details measurements/cartography: H4421/29 POSN 512730N, 033900W, OR 2M SE 0.5E APPROX, FROM CG PORTHCAWL. (CG, PORTHCAWL). H3489/31 LIES 115DEGS, 1.97M FROM PORTHCAWL LT. (TH 1593/31). PLOTS IN 512733N, 033901W. INS WK 0.5FMS IN 512734N, 033855W. BR STD. H2498/50 12.12.50 AMEND TO ST, DRIES 4FT. (AUTHORITY NOT KNOWN). BR STD. 20.7.73 WK BECOMING MORE APPARENT AT LW. TH MAY BUOY FOR BENEFIT OF POWER BOATS. (CG, MUMBLES, TELECON). 8.4.74 INSERT AS ST, DRIES 2.1MTRS. NC 1169. HH100/351/02 18.4.90 REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN BLOWN UP, USING EXPLOSIVES, IN THE LATE 1970'S. NO LONGER A DANGER TO SMALL CRAFT. (R M PERKINS). NCA YET. HH090/522/01 5.3.92 NO TRACE FOUND DURING BASIC SURVEY. SONAR NOT USED. REPORTED BY HARBOUR MASTER, PORTHCAWL, AND LIFEBOAT CREW, TO HAVE BEEN DISPERSED AND NO TRACE OF IT SINCE. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 522). AMEND TO FOUL. BR STD. 29.9.05 EUT POSN: 5127.578N, 0339.090W. NE 1169. SEP 2018/000204444 22.2.18 EXAM'D 22.2.18 IN 5127.614N, 0339.103W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 0.88 IN GEN DEPTH 2.5MTRS. TOTAL LENGTH OF THE TWO PIECES, (INCLUDING THE GAP IN BETWEEN THEM), 71.1MTRS, WIDTH 66.6MTRS, HT 1.3MTRS. ORIENTATION OF THE TWO PIECES 074/254 DEGS. MODERATELY WELL DEFINED AND IN TWO PIECES. THE SHOALEST DEPTH IS OVER THE SMALL PIECE, TO THE NE OF THE MAIN PART OF THE WRECK. (TITAN ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEYS LTD, HI1501). AMEND TO DW 0.88MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 27.614 N,3 39.103 W

 

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