This is the information page about the shipwreck Pacific (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 36.463 N,4 13.106 W (53.3825, -4.2246833333333)

 

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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. 212
2. Abbotsford
3. Apapa
4. Bengollyun
5. Benholm
6. Bijou
7. Braganza
8. Cambank
9. Captain mclintock
10. Cartegena
11. Clwyd (probably)
12. Clytie
13. Constance
14. Cork
15. Dakota
16. Delfina
17. Derbent
18. Empress eugenie
19. Excel
20. Ghambira
21. Gleneden
22. Guillermo
23. Herbert
24. Hildena
25. Hindlea
26. Hoveringham 2
27. Hyacinth
28. Katy
29. Kinkorth
30. La plata (possibly)
31. Lightstone (probably)
32. Liverpool
33. Loweswater
34. Lynkar
35. Marie moller
36. Mary coles (possibly)
37. Mhari l
38. Minerva
39. Miriam thomas
40. Mtb 539
41. Opal (possibly)
42. Pacific (possibly)
43. Pamela
44. President harbitz
45. River humber
46. Rothsay castle
47. Seahow
48. Skerries
49. Sonia
50. Tijl uilenspiegel
51. Vigsnes
52. Wern (possibly)

 

Name: PACIFIC (POSSIBLY)

Length 86 meter, width: 13.7 meter, draught: 9.8, tonnage 2860 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,clay products

Cause: 23.1.1856 wooden hull. left liverpool 23.1.1856 for new york. was not heard of again.

Year of registration: 1987

Water depth above wreck: 44 meter, Height above seabed: 135 cm

Known since: 1987, last detected: 1996

Details measurements/cartography: H3838/86 20.8.87 H3838/86 20.8.87 WK LOCATED IN 533627N, 041302W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6. LEAST E/S DEPTH 38.8MTRS; BY DCS3 38MTRS. (HMS FAWN, HI 357). CHART AS WK 38MTRS.

- NM 2699/87. H3838/86 29.3.88 H3838/86 29.3.88 EXAM'D 29.9.87 BY HMS BULLDOG WITH HYDROSEARCH USING HIFIX/6 & TRISPONDER. LEAST E/S DEPTH 38.8 IN GEN DEPTH 44MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 6.2MTRS; HYDROSEARCH VERTICAL HT 4.3MTRS; SHADOW HT 4.0MTRS. APPEARS AS A HEAP OF WRECKAGE LYING 135/315 DEG. LENGTH 32.5MTRS, BEAM 11MTRS. CHART AS WK 38MTRS. (HMS FAWN, HI 357). NFA. H100/351/01 23.11.89 H100/351/01 23.11.89 DIVED ON AND FOUND TO BE REMAINS OF OLD SV WITH VERY LITTLE OF TIMBERS LEFT EXCEPT FOR PORTIONS OF HULL PROTRUDING FROM SEABED. CONFIRMED TO BE BASICALLY A HEAP OF WRECKAGE MADE UP OF POTTERY, EARTHENWARE, BOTTLES AND LARGE JARS ALL IN A JUMBLE AND SLOWLY SPILLING OUT ONTO SURROUNDING SEABED. IN STERN AREA, A LARGE NUMBER OF COPPER DISCS, MARKED 'NEWTON KEATES & CO. LIVERPOOL' HAVE BEEN FOUND AND ALSO ROLLS OF LEAD TUBING. INDICATIONS ARE OF A FULLY LADEN SV OUTWARD BOUND FROM LIVERPOOL AND THOUGHT POSSIBLY TO BE THE 'GOVERNOR FENNER', AN EMIGRANT SHIP WHICH SANK 20.2.1841 AFTER A COLLISION WITH PADDLE STEAMER 'NOTTINGHAM'. REASONS STATED IN LETTER. (K HURLEY, 23.10.89). US SV 'GOVERNOR FENNER' SANK ON 20.2.1841 AFTER A COLLISION IN THICK FOG 15M WEST OF HOLYHEAD. (DOD). 7.10.91 7.10.91 WK HAS BEEN PURCHASED FROM AMERICAN INSURERS AS THE 'PACIFIC' WHICH SANK IN 1857. OWNERSHIP HAS BEEN SUBJECT OF AN ENQUIRY BY DEPT OF TRANSPORT. WK IS EASILY FOUND USING HMS FAWN'S DECCA COORDS BUT NOT WHEN SEARCHING USING GPS ON LAT & LONG. ONLY PART OF VESSEL BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN LOCATED. (P DAY, TELECON). HH100/351/08 9.6.94 HH100/351/08 9.6.94 BRASS PLATES RECOVERED FROM WRECK MARKED 'J & J WHITEHOUSE' VICTORIA, TIPTON; PATENTED 15.9.65 SUGGEST WK CANNOT BE THAT OF THE `PACIFIC' WHICH SANK IN 1856. HH100/351/12 16.12.96 HH100/351/12 16.12.96 WK REPD TO BE VIRTUALLY LEVEL WITH THE SURROUNDING SEABED AND THOUGHT UNLIKELY TO BE THE 'PACIFIC' AS CAST IRON 'IRONS' RECOVERED WERE DATED 1863. (S.KERSHAW). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP

Position: 53 36.463 N,4 13.106 W

 

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