This is the information page about the shipwreck President leroy lallier, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 48.94 N,5 12.59 W (48.699, -5.1015)
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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: PRESIDENT LEROY LALLIER
Length 76.5 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 1320 ton
Cause: built 1881 by j readhead & co., with compound engines of 186nhp. owned at the time of loss by cie des bateaux a vapeur du nord. torpedoed and sunk by german submarine in english channel. (dods).
Year of registration: 1918
Water depth above wreck: 101 meter
Known since: 1918, last detected: 2021
Details measurements/cartography: 10.4.18 SANK IN 485800N, 051300W. (IDAC HMT ARMOTH CASTLE). 15.4.18 SANK IN 485800N, 051300W. (AP REPORT FALMOUTH). H1690/19 16.7.19 NDW IN 485000N, 051300W. (PARIS NM). INS AS NDW IN 484900N, 051230W. BR STD. 1932 NAME TAKEN FROM FRENCH WK CHART 10102 [RECEIVED 1934]. H640/53 9.2.53 9.2.53-21.12.53 SALVAGE OPS IN PROGRESS. - TNM 258/53 ISSUED. SEE ALSO WK [25364] IN 485800N, 051300W. 24.1.78 SHOWN AS NDW ON FRENCH 6680 [INT 1708]. STATED AS 'PRESIDENT LEROY LALLIER' IN 484900N, 051230W [EUR]. (FRENCH WK RECORDS). 9.3.79 NDW PA IN 484900N, 051230W [EUR]. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1976). NE 2644. 10.8.87 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 85MTRS ON FRENCH 6680 [1986 EDN]. 26.2.88 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 85MTRS ON FRENCH 7067 [1987 EDN]. ALSO LISTED IN FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987 NO.14585011. NC 2644. 27.2.09 SHOWN IN 4848.940N, 0512.590W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6680 [3RD EDN 2003, CORRECT TO NM 42 29 08, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NC 2647.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 48 48.94 N,5 12.59 W