This is the information page about the shipwreck Potomac, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 4.28 N,0 11.443 W (54.071333333333, -0.19071666666667)

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.

Name: POTOMAC

Length 80.2 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 1832 ton
Load: grain

Cause: built in 1872 by the london and glasgow co. owned at time of loss by the merchantile ss co. two boilers, compound expansion engine of 150hp, single shaft. passage odessa for aberdeen. cargo wheat. stranded and lost in ene force 6. (dods & sibi).

Year of registration: 1971

Water depth above wreck: 2 meter

Known since: 1971, last detected: 2011

Details measurements/cartography: H2286/65 22.3.71 UNIDENTIFIED WRECK FOUND BY DIVER ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF BRIDLINGTON PIER. HEIGHT 10FT ABOVE SEABED. THOUGHT POSSIBLY TO BE THAMES BARGE 'LUCINDA', SUNK 1900. (CG FLAMBOROUGH). NAVEAM 106/71 ISSUED. H2286/65 22.3.71 LEAST DEPTH OVER WK 0FMS 5FT IN 540413N, 001126W. (TH YARMOUTH 18.3.71)

- NM 420/71. H2286/65 4.5.71 G CONL BUOY CLOSE E OF WRECK. (THNM 38/71).

- NM 677/71. H2286/65 5.5.71 CLEARANCE OF 5.5FT (MLWST) OVER WRECKAGE. GEN DEPTH 11.5FT. WRECK BUOY TO REMAIN UNTIL DISPERSED TO GROUND LEVEL. (THV PATRICIA AND TH LETTER DTD 7.4.71).- NFA. H2286/65 27.8.71 CONTRACT PLACED WITH RISDON BEAZLEY TO DISPERSE WRECK. (TH LTR DTD 10.8.71). 12.10.76 WRECK WAS 280FT IN LENGTH. WRECK WAS CUT DOWN TO HOLD LEVEL WHICH WAS BELOW SEA BED LEVEL. NOW CONSTITUTES A FOUL AREA. NO INFORMATION ABOUT BUOY. (F HINDS, RISDON BEASLEY, TELECON 12.10.76). H/ 13.10.76 WRECK DISPERSED BY CONTRACTOR TO 7.75FT IN GENERAL DEPTHS OF 8.5FT. SWEPT CLEAR 7.75FT. BUOY REMOVED IN JUNE 1974. (TELECON TH/CB & WKS 13.10.76). AMEND TO SW 2.4MTRS. BR STD. H4069/72 5.3.80 NOT FOUND. REPORTED LOCALLY AS DISPERSED. (HMS BULLDOG HI 47/79). AMENDED DEAD. BR STD. SEP 2011/000131153 2.8.11 LOCATED IN 5404.280N, 0011.443W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 1.85MTRS. (NETSURVEY, HN DTD 12.7.11 FOR HI 1358). DISPERSED. SHAPE OF CENTRE PART NOTABLE. INS AS FOUL 1.8MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: DEBRIS

Position: 54 4.28 N,0 11.443 W

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