This is the information page about the shipwreck Meriones, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 51.755 N,1 46.88 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. Aberhill
3. Actuosity (possibly)
4. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Artemisia
9. Avonwood
10. Ayrshire (possibly)
11. Barrhill
12. Begona no 5
13. Bertha
14. Boulderpool (after part)
15. Boulderpool (fwd part)
16. British triumph
17. Camilla weston
18. Cantabria (probably)
19. Cardanel
20. Chevington
21. City of kobe
22. Clansman (possibly)
23. Continental (possibly)
24. Corchester
25. Cordene
26. Corduff
27. Cormead
28. Courier (probably)
29. Crichtoun
30. Cross sand ltv
31. Daisy (possibly)
32. Dashwood
33. David b summers
34. Efos
35. El dorado
36. Ems
37. English trader
38. Ethel
39. Ethel radcliffe
40. Excellenz mehnert
41. Friesland
42. Fulgens
43. Galatea (possibly)
44. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
45. Gardenia
46. Geneva
47. George fisher
48. Georgia (for'd part)
49. Glen derry (probably)
50. Glen tilt (possibly)
51. Glynn
52. Granta
53. Hauxley (possibly)
54. Hector gannet
55. Helena
56. Hms agate
57. Hms cantatrice
58. Hms cloughton wyke
59. Hms dhoon (probably)
60. Hms dungeness
61. Hms force
62. Hms francolin
63. Hms glen prosen
64. Hms irvana (part of)
65. Hms m a west (probably)
66. Hms tonbridge
67. Hms tranio
68. Hms true accord (probably)
69. Hms washington (probably)
70. Hms william stephen
71. Hmsm c 11
72. Hmsm d5
73. I t l anna b
74. Ilse
75. Ionian (probably)
76. King egbert
77. Knitsley (part of)(probably)
78. La perouse (possibly)
79. Langeli (possibly)
80. Leelite
81. Leopold ii
82. Lindisfarne (probably)
83. Londoner (probably)
84. Marsworth
85. Meriones
86. Montferland
87. Murdoch (probably)
88. Navarra (possibly)
89. Nereus
90. Nordborg (possibly)
91. Norman queen
92. Oakgrove
93. Oil trader
94. Ole bull
95. Osprey
96. Otter
97. Oxshott (possibly)
98. Pacific (possibly)
99. Pegrix
100. Pluton
101. Polaris
102. Prima
103. Regain
104. Robrix
105. Roine
106. Rose marie
107. Roy
108. Rye
109. Seagull
110. Seaham
111. Sheaf water
112. Sir william stephenson
113. St mark
114. Stanmount
115. Trevethoe
116. Upminster
117. Vanguard
118. Vanilla (probably)
119. Varoy
120. Vigo
121. Viola (possibly)
122. Waldinge
123. Walkure
124. War valley
125. Whintown (possibly)
126. White swan
127. Willowpool
128. Xanthe
129. Yewvalley (possibly)

 

Name: MERIONES

Length 140.1 meter, width: 17.8 meter, draught: 9.9, tonnage 7557 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1922 by palmers co ltd. owned at time of loss by china mutual steam navigation co. twin steam turbines, twin shaft. passage london for brisbane. general cargo including 225 tons whitening and cement, 90 tons sodium nitrate, 70 tons manganese, 480 tons tinplate and cable and machinery. bombed by german aircraft while aground on haisbro' sands.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 17 meter, Height above seabed: 35 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2015

Details measurements/cartography: H02526/41 2.8.41 LIES WITH BACK BROKEN IN 525205N, 014652E. CONSPIC FOREMAST 80FT HIGH; MAINMAST 87FT. ON HEADING 265 DEG. WITH PART UPPER WORKS SHOWING ABOVE LW. (FOIC YARMOUTH, 9.7.41). INS AS ST.

- NM 1814/41. H02526/41 23.3.51 LOCATED BY SONAR. SWEPT CLEAR AT 5FMS IN 525143N, 014659E. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1950). BR STD. H2334/75 21.9.76 NOT FOUND DURING SONAR AND E/S SEARCH WITHIN HALF MILE OF LISTED POSN. NO CONTACTS OBTAINED. (HMS FAWN, HI 42/75). 14.3.73 AMEND TO SW 8.9MTRS [LAT]. NC 106. H1952/80 24.1.83 EXAM'D 26.5.82 IN 525143N, 014701E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 16.8 IN GEN DEPTH 19MTRS. NO SCOUR. WK EXTENDS OVER AREA APPROX 40 X 40MTRS, GIVING INDISTINCT SONAR TRACE. HAISBOROUGH SAND MOVED E SINCE 1960 ACCOUNTING FOR MUCH OF CHANGE IN DEPTH. ACCEPT E/S DEPTH. (SOISS, HI 22). BR STD. HH100/351/04 27.3.91 DIVED ON. WK IS NOW COMPLETELY COVERED WITH SAND. (R W HICKINBOTTOM, 24.2.91). NCA. HH090/604/01 22.11.93 LOCATED 5.8.93 IN 525143.7N, 014701.6E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [3 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 15.5 IN GEN DEPTH 15 TO 16MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 0.8MTR, LENGTH 50MTRS, BREADTH 15MTRS. SIX PIECES OF MINOR DEBRIS LYING 060/240DEG. CHART AS FOUL. (OCEONICS (UK) LTD., HI 604). AMEND TO FOUL. BR STD. SEP 2015/000041896 21.5.15 EXAM'D 19.1.15 IN 5251.755N, 0146.880E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 14.08MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 2.6MTRS EXTENDING 32MTRS IN DIRECTION 315 DEGREES. LENGTH 23.2MTRS, WIDTH 9.6MTRS, HT 4.3MTRS. LIES 035/215 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY HI1427). AMEND FOUL 14.0MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: NOW SIX PIECES OF MINOR DEBRIS

Position: 52 51.755 N,1 46.88 E

 

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