This is the information page about the shipwreck Quaggy (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 28.102 N,0 30.459 W (54.4542667, -0.3978333)
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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: QUAGGY (PROBABLY)
Length 67.7 meter, width: 9.6 meter, draught: 3.8, tonnage 993 ton
Load: ballast
Cause: Ex-glenpark. built in 1904 by g brown & co, greenock. single boiler, triple expansion engine of 99hp, single shaft. machinery by ross & duncan, glasgow. owned at time of loss by the s metropolitan gas co ltd. passage london for the tyne. in ballast. struck a mine laid by german submarine uc 31. 2 of 19 crew lost. (sibi, shipwrecks of the ne coast, wrecksite.eu)
Year of registration: 1917
Water depth above wreck: 44 meter, Height above seabed: 155 cm
Known since: 1917, last detected: 20161216
Details measurements/cartography: 11.4.17 REPORTED TO HAVE SUNK 3M EAST FROM NORTH CHEEK OF ROBIN HOOD BAY. H4069/72 4.12.75 WK LOCATED IN 542812N, 003006W [OGB] USING DECCA. STANDS 21FT ABOVE SEABED. (RISDON BEAZLEY MARINE LTD, HN 13.11.75). INS AS WK 33MTRS.
- NM BLOCK. H6331/87 25.1.89 EXAM'D 11.8.88 IN 542807N, 003022W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 36.0, FOUL AT 36.4MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 37.0 IN GEN DEPTHS 40 TO 45MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 5.1MTRS, LENGTH 90MTRS, BEAM 20MTRS. LIES 160/340 DEG, UPRIGHT, INTACT AND PARTIALLY BURIED BY A SAND WAVE. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). BR STD. HH100/351/09 6.6.95 INTACT AND UPRIGHT FROM STERN TO BRIDGE. TRIPLE EXPANSION AMIDSHIPS. GUN ON POOP DECK. SAND WAVE AT FWD HOLD POSN. PART OF BOW, SOME 7MTRS HIGH, APPEARS TO BE DETACHED, POSSIBLY ON OTHER SIDE OF SAND WAVE. ONE SINGLE BOILER THUS CANNOT BE HARROW [SEE 5987]. (A C JACKSON/RACEY). 30.8.01 EUT POSN: 5428.128N, 0030.469W. NE 134. 16.4.09 THIS WRECK IS PROBABLY QUAGGY. IDENTITY IS BASED ON MATCHING MACHINERY, LENGTH, STERN GUN & ATREFACTS RECOVERED. (C RACEY, E-MAIL DTD 14.4.09) SEP 2017/000002822 24.5.17 EXAM'D 16.12.16 IN 5428.102N, 0030.459W [WGD]. LEAST W/C DEPTH 35.94MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 44MTRS. LENGTH 83.2MTRS, WIDTH 9.6MTRS, HT 7.71MTRS, ORIENTATION 155/335 DEGS. WK IS PARTLY BROKEN UP. (MMT, HI 1491). AMEND NDW 35MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 54 28.102 N,0 30.459 W