This is the information page about the shipwreck Otis tetrax, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 45.052 N,0 8.245 E (53.569150, 0.093600)

 

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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. Acklamd (possibly)
2. Airdrie (possibly)
3. Amenity
4. Arcona champion
5. Audacity
6. Avalon
7. B o borjesson
8. Beaconsfield
9. Bellerophon
10. Box hill
11. Boys own
12. Brabant
13. Breitenburg
14. Brema
15. British councillor
16. British prince
17. Briton (possibly)
18. Cadmus
19. Canada
20. Chant 63
21. Chloris (possibly)
22. City of birmingham
23. Coastal fort no 1 (part of)(possibly)
24. Coastal fort no-1
25. Corinth (possibly)
26. Cramlington (possibly)
27. Cyclope
28. Dana (possibly)
29. Daphne ii
30. Dayrian
31. Deerpool (after section)
32. Deerpool (for'd section)
33. Diana
34. Diana
35. Dido
36. Dryade
37. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
38. Dunsany
39. Empress (probably)
40. Ethel (possibly)
41. Exmoor
42. Faunus
43. Feltre
44. Femke
45. Fermo
46. Forest queen
47. Fowberry tower (part)
48. Fowberry tower (part)
49. Francis
50. Fryken
51. Georgie
52. Georgios
53. Gerhardt (possibly)
54. Girl kitty (possibly)
55. Giuseppe
56. Gothic
57. Harlech
58. Harnis (probably)
59. Helmsman (probably)
60. Hms benvolio
61. Hms botanic
62. Hms calverton
63. Hms corfield
64. Hms cortina
65. Hms dervish
66. Hms egret
67. Hms fairy
68. Hms falcon (stern section)
69. Hms falmouth
70. Hms lormont
71. Hms mistletoe
72. Hms othello
73. Hms princess victoria
74. Hms remillo
75. Hms st cyrus
76. Hms strathborve (part)
77. Hms susarion
78. Hms yorkshire belle
79. Horsted
80. Hugh taylor
81. Hvitveis
82. Ida
83. Ionic (probably)
84. J b paddon
85. Janet helen (possibly)
86. John and thomas
87. John mowlem
88. John rettig (probably)
89. Kalo (probably)
90. Kimberley (possibly)
91. Kingston cameo
92. Knuthenborg
93. Kyma
94. Ladas (possibly)
95. Lady anstruther (probably)
96. Lady dinah
97. Lifeguard (possibly)
98. Longbenton (probably)
99. Lord haig (possibly)
100. Lord haig (possibly)
101. Lord selborne
102. Lottie (possibly)
103. Lucerne
104. Lyra (bow section)
105. Magdalyn ann
106. Maggie
107. Magnolia (probably)
108. Mangalore (part of)(possibly)
109. Marian francis
110. Markersdall (probably)
111. Marshall (probably)
112. Modig
113. Modiva (possibly)
114. Monimia (possibly)
115. Nadod (possibly)
116. Nautilus
117. Nimrod
118. Norfolk coast
119. Odessa
120. Onward (possibly)
121. Ophir ii (possibly)
122. Orsa
123. Otis tetrax
124. Paraciers
125. Peebles (possibly)
126. Peggotty
127. Portia
128. Ravonia (part)
129. Ravonia (part) (possibly)
130. Rayford
131. Realf
132. Reculver
133. Retriever
134. Revi
135. Rhuys
136. Rievaulx abbey
137. Rivaulx
138. River don (part of)(probably)
139. River witham
140. Sagacity
141. Salacon
142. Salmondby
143. Saltoun
144. Sandra glen
145. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
146. Sna iii
147. Sota eduardo
148. Stanburn
149. Teano
150. Tees
151. Thessaly
152. Thomas deas
153. Togston (possibly)
154. Tredegar hall
155. Triton
156. Uc 39
157. Uc 47
158. Uc 75
159. Umbe
160. Upminster (possibly)
161. Varangmalm (possibly)
162. Venture (possibly)
163. Ville de valenciennes
164. Wayside flower (possibly)
165. Whitemantle (possibly)
166. William hanson
167. Windsor (part of)
168. Windsor (part of)
169. Winga
170. Xavier
171. Xavier
172. Zeemermin

 

Name: OTIS TETRAX

Length 65.5 meter, width: 9.8 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 996 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1916 by j meyer's sb co, zaltbommel. owned at time of loss by the shipping controller. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 186hp, single shaft. machinery by burgherhour's works, rotterdam. passage methil for rouen. cargo coal. torpedoed and sunk by submarine, probably ub-112.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 14 meter, Height above seabed: 243 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20200917

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 28 MILES S 1/4 E FROM FLAMBOROUGH HD. (BMVS). M39420 22.8.18 POSN 534030N, 000900E. (SIO GRIMSBY IDSA). 23.8.18 8 MILES N FROM HUMBER LT V. (BOT WR). 31.8.18 POSN 534100N, 001230E. (VAEC AP REPD). H4213/19 31.5.19 POSN WITHERNSEA LTHO 3.9M, 252DEG. MARKED BY LT BUOY. H8301/22 18.12.22 DISPERSED TO 42FT LWST. (TH NM 78/22). INS AS WK 7FMS IN 534455N, 000809E.

- NM 44/23. 10.2.67 POSN AMENDED TO 534504N, 000812E. NE 109. 9.5.74 AMEND TO WK 12.1MTRS [LAT]. NC 121. H1287/78/302 19.10.78 LOCATED IN 534420N, 000755W USING DECCA. BOILER AND BOW ONLY STANDING 12FT AND LYING IN SMALL SCOUR. (M OXLADE, 12.9.78). SEP 2021/000166150 4.9.20 EXAM’D 17.9.20 IN 5345.052N, 0008.245E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 12.32MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 14MTRS. LENGTH 66.3MTRS, WIDTH 18.4MTRS, HT 2.6MTRS. ORIENTATION 243/063 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 12.2MTRS, WIDTH 19.1MTRS, 0.4MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 200 DEGS. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI 1587). HEAVILY DEGRADED, WITH BOILER VISIBLE. AMEND DW 12.3MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: HEAVILY DEGRADED, WITH BOILER VISIBLE

Position: 53 45.052 N,0 8.245 E

 

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