This is the information page about the shipwreck Mobeka, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 18.031 N,5 42.229 W (55.27305, -5.5877166666667)

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.

Name: MOBEKA

Length 130 meter, width: 16.9 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 6111 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1937 by flensburger shiffsb, flensburg. owned at time of loss by cie maritime belgium. two 8 cylinder oil engines of 972bhp. passage liverpool for freetown and matadi. had left liverpool for the clyde to await the assembly of a convoy. sighted flares and proceeded towards them, assuming that the were for the convoy. flares were from trawler anna maria, in distress ashore near carskey bay. despite further flares being shown mobeka grounded close w of the same bay in heavy weather. only one boat containing six escaped, the other boats being smashed. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1977

Water depth above wreck: 2 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1977, last detected: 1985

Details measurements/cartography: H1309/76 25.1.77 CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF WRECKAGE REMAINING. THE ENGINE BLOCK PROTRUDES 1MTR ABOVE WATER AT HIGH TIDE AND LARGE AMOUNTS OF WRECKAGE ARE LYING ON THE SEA BED IN APPROX 7MTRS OF WATER. MOST OF THE WRECK IS SALVAGED AND SALVAGE STILL THOUGHT TO BE TAKING PLACE. REMAINS OF WRECK LIE CLOSE INSHORE IN SHALLOW WATER AND THEREFORE ONLY DANGEROUS TO SMALL CRAFT. (FLT LT P C MINTER & SOUTHEND CG, REPORT DTD 22.11.76). H1309/76/62 6.6.79 ENGINE (PARTLY MELTED) STILL VISIBLE ABOVE WATER. SOME OF THE HULL & PIPEWORK STILL INTACT. LIES IN 7MTRS. EXPOSED IN 2 PLACES AT LW. LIES PARALLEL TO COAST ABOUT 40 MTRS OFFSHORE. (RAF ABINGDON, EXPED). INS AS ST. BR STD. H2885/83 29.1.85 EXAM'D 17.6.84 IN 551804N, 054213W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [2 LOP]. WRECKAGE LIES CLOSE INSHORE WITH ONLY ONE SMALL BLOCK OF RIVETTED STEEL DRYING 2.1MTRS. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 165A). NCA. 7.7.04 RECORD REVIEWED. HMS BULLDOG'S POSN PLOTS ASHORE. POSN AMENDED TO 5518.032N, 0542.167W [OGB] TO AGREE WITH PREVIOUS DESCRIPTION THAT WK LIES 40MTRS OFFSHORE. PLOTTED POSN DISPLACED 80MTRS SE.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ONLY ONE BLOCK OF STEEL SHOWS AT LW

Position: 55 18.031 N,5 42.229 W

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