This is the information page about the shipwreck Port chalmers, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 2.028 N,5 4.089 W (49.967, -5.1835166666667)
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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: PORT CHALMERS
Length 76.1 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 6.9, tonnage 1568 ton
Load: granular or powdery material
Cause: vessel, built 1884, by russel & co., greenock. on passage semarang to liverpool. ran aground on wrea rock, manacles, after having been laid up in falmouth for two months. owned at time of loss by crawford & rowat, glasgow. (shipwreck index of the british isles)
Year of registration: 2002
Water depth above wreck: 2 meter
Known since: 2002
Details measurements/cartography: HH100/351/18 5.4.02 STATED TO HAVE BROKEN UP IN 5002.028N, 0504.089W [WGD]. (JASON ROSEVEARE, E-MAIL DTD 20.3.02) NCA, EXISTING SCALES TOO SMALL.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 50 2.028 N,5 4.089 W