This is the information page about the shipwreck Nero, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 18.704 N,4 52.061 W (48.304416666667, -4.8459166666667)

 

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Name: NERO

Length 76.2 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1257 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: vessel, built 1909 by earle's co, was disabled by heavy weather and abandoned by all except the captain while on passage from swansea to lisbon. the vessel was wrecked on the pierre noires, near coquet. owned at the time of loss by ellerman's wilson line. (dods).

Year of registration: 1930

Water depth above wreck: 6 meter

Known since: 1930, last detected: 2017

Details measurements/cartography: H7849/30 21.11.30 SHOWN AS ST IN 481845N, 045200W ON FRENCH WK CHART. NE 3345. 15.4.77 SHOWN AS ST ON FRENCH 5287 [1976 EDN]. 10.8.77 ST DRIES 3.2MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 5MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1976). 8.7.83 ST DRIES 2.9MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 5MTRS. SIZE, OVER 1000TONS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1983). NC 3345. 4.5.84 WK OF MERCHANT SHIP 'NERO' STRANDED IN 481845.6N, 045158.5N [EUR]. WK, WHICH COVERS & UNCOVERS, DRIES 2.9MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 5MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1984). H1271/85 13.8.85 SHOWN AS ST PD DRIES 2.9MTRS ON FRENCH 5287 [1986 EDN]. BR STD. HH353/350/01 31.5.90 CARGO SHIP 'NERO' IN 481845.5N, 045158.5W [EUR]. POSN ACCURACY 500MTRS [NOT PA OR PD]. ST DRIES 2.9MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 5MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14584134). BR STD. 5.6.90 SHOWN AS ST PD DRIES 2.9MTRS ON FRENCH 7122 [1989 EDN]. NC 3345. 15.1.98 SHOWN AS ST PD DRIES 2.6MTRS ON FRENCH 7122 [1997 EDN, LARGEST SCALE]. NC 3345. 28.8.08 SHOWN IN 4818.704N, 0452.061W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7122 [3RD EDN 2008, 1:25,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NE 3345.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 48 18.704 N,4 52.061 W

 

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