This is the information page about the shipwreck Pollux (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 57 42.018 N,1 9.046 W (57.757033333333, -1.3633833333333)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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: POLLUX (PROBABLY)
Length 68.6 meter, width: 9.8 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 1196 ton
Load: personnel,chemicals,general and mixed goods
Cause: built in 1907. owned at time of loss by det bergenske d/s. passage newcastle for bergen. torpedoed & sunk by a german submarine.
Year of registration: 1917
Water depth above wreck: 77 meter, Height above seabed: 170 cm
Known since: 1917, last detected: 2009
Details measurements/cartography: 19.3.17 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 574250N, 011200W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). INS AS WK. H4087/26 24.6.26 AMEND TO NDW (1917)(PA) ON WK CHARTS. 7.2.57 INS AS NDW PA. NC 1409. 21.8.78 AMEND WK USC PA 60MTRS. BR STD. HH091/155/01 20.1.10 SEP 2010/000027978 EXAM'D 11.5.09 IN 5742.018N, 0109.046W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 70.94 IN GEN DEPTH 77.1MTRS. SCOUR 1.8MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 10MTRS FROM BOW AND STERN. LENGTH 70MTRS, WIDTH 21MTRS, HT 6.2MTRS. LIES 170/350 DEGS WITH BOWS N. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. DEGRADED. (GARDLINE HYDRO, HI 1155). INTACT, UPRIGHT. AMEND WK 70MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, INTACT, BOWS N, SCOUR AT BOW AND STERN
Position: 57 42.018 N,1 9.046 W