This is the information page about the shipwreck Merchant, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 34.472 N,2 17.4 E (52.7504, 2.0371)

 

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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. Abeona
2. Activity
3. Atle
4. Avonwood
5. Begona no 5
6. Blacktoft (possibly)
7. Bovey tracy
8. Boy karl
9. City of kobe
10. Corbrook
11. Cormead
12. Crichtoun
13. Django
14. Edinardue antoinette (possibly)
15. El dorado
16. Eleni v (bow section)
17. Excellenz mehnert
18. Fidelio
19. Girl linda
20. Glen tilt (possibly)
21. Goodwood (possibly)
22. Groenlo
23. Gudrun
24. Hamsterley
25. Helena
26. Hms bracklyn (possibly)
27. Hms dunoon (possibly)
28. Hms evesham (possibly)
29. Hms exmoor
30. Hms pelton (probably)
31. Hmsm d5
32. Horseferry (probably)
33. Knitsley (part of)(probably)
34. Knitsley (possibly)
35. Liliane (possibly)
36. Lindisfarne (probably)
37. Lingfield
38. Merchant
39. Mirella
40. Navarra (possibly)
41. Nereus
42. Newland (possibly)
43. Noreen
44. Oil trader
45. Onto
46. Otis tarda
47. Philipp m
48. Pluton
49. Prosper
50. Quest
51. Rogate
52. Rokos vergottis
53. Scotia
54. Stad alkmaar
55. Stanmount
56. Strive
57. Togston
58. U 13 (probably)
59. Vigia
60. Virgilia
61. War mehtar
62. Wast (possibly)
63. Yewvalley (possibly)

 

Name: MERCHANT

Length 117.3 meter, width: 15.8 meter, draught: 8.1, tonnage 4615 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: Built in 1934 by lithgows ltd, port glasgow. owned at time of loss by charente ss co ltd. three boilers, triple expansion engine of 477hp, single shaft. passage london for the tyne & demerara. (sibi). ?mined.

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 49 meter, Height above seabed: 35 cm

Known since: 1945, last detected: 20170311

Details measurements/cartography: H03210/45 20.6.45 POOR SONAR CONTACT. PROBABLE WK. HEIGHT 15FT. (NORE LIST, 15.6.45). H3730/69 1.6.69 LOCATED IN 523427N, 021730E [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 113FT IN GEN DEPTH 155FT. SCOUR 161FT. SEABED SANDWAVES. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 38/68). INS AS WK 19FMS. BR STD. H4398/71 16.9.71 EXAM'D IN 523427N, 021730E [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 29.0MTRS, FOUL 30.0MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 31.8MTRS IN 47MTRS. NO SCOUR. APPROX 400FT LONG IN AREA OF INTENSIVE SANDWAVES. (HMS ENTERPRISE, 21.6.71). AMEND TO SW 15FMS 5FT. BR STD. H4398/71 11.2.72 AMEND TO SW 15FMS 5FT.

- NM 378/72. 5.4.72 AMEND TO SW 29MTRS. NC 1543. H2496/72 26.6.72 WW2 WK. HEIGHT 48FT WITH SANDWAVES UP TO 20FT. LIES E/W WITH BOWS E. NO SCOUR. STANDS UPRIGHT, APPROX 2500GRT WITH 4 HOLDS. HOLE 10FT ACROSS STB SIDE JUST FORWARD OF BRIDGE. (UNDERMARINE OPS, 16 & 20.6.72). 22.11.72 SHOWN IN 523430N, 021730E [EUR] ON NETH FISHERIES 1954 [REC'D 7.11.72]. HH090/616/01 22.11.94 EXAM'D 25.7.94 IN 523427.30N, 021731.00E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [3 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 32.1, FOUL 32.5MTRS.LEAST E/S DEPTH 33.0 IN GEN DEPTH 44MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 5MTRS. DCS3 HT 13MTRS. LENGTH 124MTRS, WIDTH 24MTRS. LIES 025/205 DEGS. WK APPEARS WHOLE AND LYING ON ITS SIDE. STRONG REFLECTOR. (GARDLINE, HI 616). BR STD. HH100/351/20 30.7.03 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE BELL AND SHIP'S CROCKERY AS SS MERCHANT FROM LIVERPOOL. OWNED BY THE CHARENT SS CO LTD. (D RONNAN, LTR DTD 27.7.03). NCA. SEP 2017/000067039 9.8.17 EXAM'D 11.3.17 IN 5234.472N, 0217.400E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 33.52MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 49MTRS, LENGTH 122.2MTRS, WIDTH 18.9MTRS, HEIGHT 11.7MTRS, ORIENTATION 035/215 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 378MTRS, 4MTRS DEEP, TOWARDS 009 DEGS. WRECK IS LARGE INTACT AND UPRIGHT CONTACT. (GARDLINE, HI 1516). AMEND NDW 33MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 34.472 N,2 17.4 E

 

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