This is the information page about the shipwreck Quebra, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 5.82 N,10 32.255 W (52.072, -10.5805)

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: QUEBRA

Length 114.9 meter, width: 16.2 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 4538 ton
Load: armament,general and mixed goods,natural fibres and materials in general: unprocessed and products

Cause: believed to have run aground, and later to have slipped back sinking to the sw of big blasket island. was on passage new york to liverpool.

Year of registration: 1969

Water depth above wreck: 22 meter

Known since: 1969, last detected: 1991

Details measurements/cartography: 20.6.69 REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN LOCATED BY S WIGNALL. (BOT, WAR RISK & LLOYDS INTELL, TELECON). NCA YET. H1286/71 3.9.71 POSN 520558N, 103210W. WRECK LIES ON A SLOPE IN DEPTHS OF 60-120FT. (K BIALOWAS, NEVADA DIVING & SALVAGE CO LTD, 27.8.71). H1283/78/158 5.5.78 LOCATED 28.6.77 ON N SIDE OF GREAT-BLASKET ISLAND. BACK BEARINGS FROM (A) TOWER (RUIN) 269 DEG (T); (B) HILL SPOT HEIGHT 926 FT 040 DEG (T); (C) HILL SPOT HEIGHT 203FT 229 DEG (T), WHICH GIVES 520548.1N, 103213.5W. LYING ON STEEP SLOPE IN DEPTHS OF 25-33MTRS. SCATTERED WRECKAGE. BOILER, 10MTRS SQUARE, ON W SIDE OF WHICH WERE FOUND SHELLS, BRASS WARHEADS, DETONATORS, OIL STONES, BRASS WIRE AND COGS. ON E SIDE WERE MORE LARGE SHELLS AND ASSORTED PIPES. (R A GOOD, SALE SAC, 2.5.78). NCA. VERY CLOSE INSHORE. H1310/88/26 20.5.88 WK WAS DIVED EXTENSIVELY DURING SUMMERS OF 1986 AND 1987 BY IRISH NAVY. LARGE QUANTITIES OF AMMUNITION WERE DESTROYED FOR SECURITY REASONS. (E BOURKE, 11.4.88). H1310/88 17.8.88 LOCATED IN 520548N, 103214W IN GEN DEPTH 20MTRS. COMPLETELY BROKEN UP. SHELL HEADS SCATTERED EVERYWHERE. NO INDICATIONS OF LIVE CASES. STRONG CURRENTS EXPERIENCED. (R GOLDEN, 15.7.88). 5.6.89 CARGO MANIFEST STATES 'SHELLS'. THOSE FOUND BY DIVERS ARE EMPTY STEEL PROJECTILES. (T HANLAN, TELECON 5.6.89). HH100/351/04 8.1.91 WK LIES ABEAM TO LOCHAR ROCK ON W SIDE OF GREAT-BLASKET ISLAND IN 18-40MTRS. BOW SECTION IS WELL PRESERVED BUT SUPERSTRUCTURE IS IN POOR CONDITION. (P MCGUINNESS, 4.1.91).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP

Position: 52 5.82 N,10 32.255 W

Wrecks near the Netherlands
Wrecks near Belgium
Wrecks near Germany
Wrecks near France
Wrecks near Great Britain
Wrecks off Denmark
Wrecks off Sweden
Wrecks off Norway