Wreck: President (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck President, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 52.35 N,2 4.5 W (55.872500, -2.075000)
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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: PRESIDENT
Length 85.3 meter, width: 12.5 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1945 ton
Load: ballast
Cause: went ashore at whapness, near eyemouth, on voyage from hamburg to methil. vessel, built 1907, ran ground in thick fog on rocky reef whup ness. crew climbed ashore by means of a ladder.(dive st abbs & eyemouth)
Year of registration: 1928
Water depth above wreck: 6 meter
Known since: 1928, last detected: 2003
Details measurements/cartography: 29.6.67 REPD TO HAVE BEEN LOCATED 0.25M SE OF ST ABBS HD. (RAF BINBROOK SAC). POSN 555400N, 020730W FOR FILING ONLY. 17.8.70 FOUND BY MR KERR (BSAC) OF 59 HIGH ST, COCKENZIE, E. LOTHIAN. 12.1.99 REPD TO LIE S OF EYEMOUTH AND COVERED IN SOFT CORALS AND KELP. (DIVER MAGAZINE JAN'99). NCA. HH090/915/01 17.1.02 NOT LOCATED IN 5554.00N, 0207.500W. (GARDLINE, HI 915). AMENDED DEAD. NCA. 7.1.04 WK OF PRESIDENT LIES IN GULLY OFF AGATE POINT, EYEMOUTH. VESSEL IS COMPLETELY BROKEN UP, WITH ONLY THE BOILERS STANDING PROUD OF THE SEABED, A WINCH IS ALSO VISIBLE [PHOTO]. (DIVER MAGAZINE JAN'04) AMENDED BACK TO LIVE, EXISTING SCALES TOO SMALL, POSN FOR FILING ONLY AMENDED TO 5552.40N, 0204.70W [WGD]. 15.1.04 POSN GIVEN AS 5552.350N, 0204.500W USING GPS [DATUM NOT STATED]. GROUNDED IN A CHANNEL BETWEEN ROCKS, STERN TO SHORE. VESSEL WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED, ONLY MAIN BOILERS SIT UPRIGHT IN SANDY GULLY IN 12MTRS, WKGE, STEEL PLATES & GIRDERS, SCATTERED OVER WIDE AREA IN DEPTHS 1-20MTRS. SALVAGE RIGHTS OWNED BY EYEMOUTH & DISTRICT SAC. PHOTO OF GROUNDED VESSEL. (DIVE ST ABBS & EYEMOUTH, PUBLISHED 1998) SEP 2021/000090526 13.4.21 NOT LOCATED IN M/B DATASET (2020). (MERITAITO, HI1591). NFA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 55 52.35 N,2 4.5 W
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