This is the information page about the shipwreck Reidar (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 0.035 N,5 27.507 W (50.000583, -5.458450)

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: REIDAR (POSSIBLY)

Length 74.1 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 5.4, tonnage 1353 ton
Load: coal

Cause: vessel, built in 1883 by t. turnbull & son, whitby and owned at the time of loss by the shipping controller (whitfield, kendrick & co., foundered in mounts bay on route from newport to nazaire. (dods & shipwreck index of the british isles).

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 54 meter, Height above seabed: 177 cm

Known since: 1945, last detected: 20160613

Details measurements/cartography: H0113/45 28.4.60 POOR SONAR CONTACT IN 495930N, 052748W. LENGTH 110FT, HEIGHT 45FT, DIR 080/260DEGS. (PLYMOUTH LIST, 25.3.45) H0113/45 28.4.60 GOOD SONAR CONTACT IN 495948N, 052706W. LENGTH 110FT, HEIGHT 45FT, DIR 080/260DEGS. GAVE OFF OIL. (PLYMOUTH LIST, 4.7.45) 3.5.60 GOOD SONAR CONTACT. (ESCORT GROUP, 2 27.2.45, AUBD, 301/45). 3.5.60 GOOD SONAR CONTACT IN 495930N, 052748W. LENGTH 110FT, HEIGHT 45FT, DIR 080/260DEGS. (ESCORT GROUP 9, 29.12.44 - 25.1.45, AUBD, 301/47). 14.7.66 NOW CHARTED AS NDW IN 495948N, 052706W. (TONNAGE NOT KNOWN). R/S. H2979/74 22.11.74 WRECK LOCATED IN 500002N, 052725W [OGB] USING DECCA. ASSUME THIS TO BE THE WRECK LOCATED IN 1945 CLOSE SW. WRECK IS OF A 2000TON STEAMSHIP [COLLIER] CARRYING CARGO OF COAL. HIGHEST POINT IS MIDSHIPS STANDING 25FT HIGH ON SEA BED. GENERAL SEA BED DEPTHS ARE 185FT. WRECKAGE IS LOWER AT THE BOWS WHERE IT IS ABOUT 5FT HIGH. WRECK LYING ABOUT 020DEGS [BOW] BY 200DEGS [STERN]. STERN IS ABOUT 15FT HIGH. NAME NOT KNOWN. (E GILES, 9.11.74). AMEND TO WK 43MTRS [23FMS] IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H2979/74 24.2.76 WK LOCATED AND DIVED ON IN 500008N, 052726W USING DECCA. (E. GILES, 29.1.76). NCA. H1286/76/212 22.6.76 WK LOCATED IN 500008N, 052726W USING DECCA. E/S TRACE SUPPLIED. DEFINITE WK. LEAST DEPTH 154FT AT HW 4.5.76. (T E CAKEBREAD). NCA. SEP 2016/000091765 26.10.16 EXAM'D 13.6.16; IN 5000.035N, 0527.507W [WGD]. LEAST WC DEPTH 48.9MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 54MTRS, LENGTH 70MTRS, WIDTH 38MTRS, HEIGHT 5MTRS, ORIENTATION 177/357 DEGS. WRECK IS SEVERELY DEGRADED, HULL HAS COLLAPSED AND LIES IN PIECES AT DIFFERENT ANGLES. IN MIDSHIPS THERE IS A SINGLE BOILER AND ENGINE, SOUTHERN MOST SECTION OF WRECK IS SHOALEST WITH THE REMAINS OF STERN INCLUDING RUDDER AND PROPELLOR. (MMT, HI 1500). AMEND NDW 48MTRS IN REVISED POSITION.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 50 0.035 N,5 27.507 W

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