Wreck: Pegu (bow section) (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Pegu (bow section), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 31.715 N,3 7.547 W (53.528583, -3.125783)
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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.
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Shipwreck details
Name: PEGU (BOW SECTION)
Length 142 meter, width: 18 meter, draught: 9.1, tonnage 8183 ton
Load: general and mixed goods
Cause: 27.11.1939 stranded on revetment and broke in two. stern floated further up the channel and sank on 27.11.1939.
Year of registration: 1952
Water depth above wreck: 3 meter
Known since: 1952, last detected: 2005
Details measurements/cartography: 12.11.53 12.11.53 ST IN 533141N 030728W. (E9522/14L). NE 1951. 24.4.73 24.4.73 DETAILS FROM LIVERPOOL WRECK RECORDS, DEC.1939 - JUNE 1940 PART OF CARGO (CASE GOODS & MOTOR LAUNCH) SALVED. DESTRUCTION OF FORE-END COMMENCED. LIFE BOATS, ANCHORS & CABLES, WINDLASS, WINCHES, ETC. RECOVERED & SOLD 24.2.1940. WK CAUGHT FIRE AND COMPLETELY BURNT-OUT AMIDSHIPS MAY 1942. ARRANGEMENTS MADE WITH BRITISH IRON & STEEL CORP FOR DISPOSAL INTO SCRAP IN 1945. WORK HAS PROCEEDED INTERMITTENTLY. (STEAM BARGE 'ANGLIA' WAS SUNK ALONGSIDE TO THE EAST OF THE WRECK WHEN RECOVERING SCRAP). HT ABOVE LBD UNKNOWN. FORWARD MAST VISIBLE. POSN 533142N 030728W. (LIVERPOOL WK RECORDS). SHOWN ON K 3500/KF NO 10. 28.2.74 28.2.74 AMEND TO ST (MAST). NC 1951. H3906/59 29.5.87 H3906/59 29.5.87 MAST KNOCKED DOWN BY TUG WALLASEY WHEN IT DRAGGED ANCHOR AND GROUNDED ON 27.3.87. (LL 31.3.87). DELETE LEGEND 'MAST'. BR STD. HH206/460/14 7.6.05 HH206/460/14 7.6.05 LIES IN 5331.700N, 0307.467W [OGB]. THERE IS NO MAST. (R J LLOYD, LTR DTD 8.4.05). AMEND POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 53 31.715 N,3 7.547 W
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