This is the information page about the shipwreck Salacon, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 32.619 N,0 15.155 E (53.569150, 0.093600)

 

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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.

 

1. Ac 9
2. Airdrie (possibly)
3. Amelie-mathilde
4. Amenity
5. Arduity
6. Audacity
7. Avalon
8. B o borjesson
9. Benmacdhui
10. Box hill
11. Breitenburg
12. British councillor
13. Cadmus
14. Canada
15. City of birmingham
16. Corinth (possibly)
17. Cramlington (possibly)
18. Daphne ii
19. Dayrian
20. Deerpool (after section)
21. Deerpool (for'd section)
22. Diana
23. Dido
24. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
25. Dunsany
26. Empress (probably)
27. Ethel (possibly)
28. Exmoor
29. Faunus
30. Femke
31. Fermo
32. Fowberry tower (part)
33. Fowberry tower (part)
34. Francis
35. Fryken
36. Georgie
37. Georgios
38. Gerhardt (possibly)
39. Girl kitty (possibly)
40. Giuseppe
41. Gladeto
42. Gothic
43. Grangemouth
44. Harlech
45. Hms benvolio
46. Hms calverton
47. Hms corfield
48. Hms cortina
49. Hms dervish
50. Hms egret
51. Hms lormont
52. Hms mistletoe
53. Hms othello
54. Hms princess victoria
55. Hms remillo
56. Hms st cyrus
57. Hms strathborve (part)
58. Hms susarion
59. Hms yorkshire belle
60. Homer
61. Ightham (possibly)
62. Ionic (probably)
63. Jane (possibly)
64. Janet helen (possibly)
65. John and thomas
66. John mowlem
67. Katina bulgari
68. Kimberley (possibly)
69. Kyma
70. Ladas (possibly)
71. Lady dinah
72. Lancaster (possibly)
73. Lincolnshire time and tide bell
74. Lord haig (possibly)
75. Lord haig (possibly)
76. Lord selborne
77. Lottie (possibly)
78. Lucerne
79. Lutha
80. Lyra (bow section)
81. Magdalyn ann
82. Maggie
83. Magnolia (probably)
84. Mangalore (part of)(possibly)
85. Marian francis
86. Marshall (probably)
87. Merchiston
88. Modig
89. Modiva (possibly)
90. Monimia (possibly)
91. Nadod (possibly)
92. Nautilus
93. Nimrod
94. Odessa
95. Ophir ii (possibly)
96. Orsa
97. Otis tetrax
98. Paraciers
99. Peggotty
100. Portia
101. Ravonia (part)
102. Ravonia (part) (possibly)
103. Rayford
104. Reculver
105. Retriever
106. Revello
107. Revi
108. Rhuys
109. Rievaulx abbey
110. Rivaulx
111. River don (part of)(probably)
112. River witham
113. Rivergate
114. Rosebud (possibly)
115. Sagacity
116. Salacon
117. Salmondby
118. Saltoun
119. Sandra glen
120. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
121. Sota eduardo
122. Stylianos chandris
123. Teano
124. Thessaly
125. Thomas deas
126. Triton
127. Upminster (possibly)
128. Venture (possibly)
129. Whitemantle (possibly)
130. William hanson
131. Windsor (part of)
132. Windsor (part of)
133. Winga
134. Xavier
135. Xavier
136. Zeemermin

 

Name: SALACON

Length 35.2 meter, width: 6.6 meter, draught: 3.5, tonnage 211 ton

Cause: built in 1905 by cook, welton & gemmel, beverley. owned at time of loss by japan fishing co ltd. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 62hp, single shaft. machinery by amos & smith co ltd. passage from grimsby for fishing and return. mined.

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 11 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 114 DEGS 5.3 MILES FROM SPURN PT LTHO. (WW2SL). H0776/40 3.10.40 H0776/40 3.10.40 INS DW.

- NM 2348/40. H0776/40 26.8.46 H0776/40 26.8.46 AMEND TO WK 2FMS 3FT. (HMS SCOTT).

- NM 2978/46. H0776/40 1.10.46 H0776/40 1.10.46 G CAN BUOY GP FL 2G 10SEC IN 533244N, 001518E. (THNM 101/46).

- NM 3205/46. H0776/40 13.10.47 H0776/40 13.10.47 LOCATED 113.5 DEGS 5.21 MILES FROM SPURN PT LT HO. 2 MASTS SHOWING 114.75 DEGS FROM SPURN LTHO. SWEPT CLEAR AT 22FT, FOUL AT 23FT. SEABED 32FT. SCOUR 35FT. (HMS SCOTT, JUNE 1947). AMEND TO WK 3FMS 4FT IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 2660/47. H0776/40 30.8.49 H0776/40 30.8.49 AMEND POSN OF LTBUOY TO 1 CABLE N OF WK. (TH).

- NM 1766/49. H0776/40 6.11.50 H0776/40 6.11.50 EXAM'D 5.1950 IN AFTER FURTHER DISPERSAL. IN TWO PARTS. PART IN 533232N, 001506E SWEPT CLEAR 23FT, FOUL AT 24FT. PART IN 533228N, 001510E SWEPT CLEAR AT 26FT, FOUL AT 27FT. SEABED 30-32FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 9.6.50). AMEND TO TWO WRECKS WK 3FMS 5FT AND WK 4FMS 2FT AND DELETE WK 3FMS 4FT AND LTBUOY. (SML 324 & TH).

- NM 2160/50. H6450/68 5.12.68 H6450/68 5.12.68 EXAM'D 6.6.68 IN 533235N, 001517E [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 30FT, NOT FOULED. LEAST E/S DEPTH 33FT IN GEN DEPTH 31-33FT. SCOUR 39FT. SCOUR CONTAINING WRECKAGE IS ALL THAT WAS FOUND DURING THE SEARCH FOR BOTH PARTS OF THIS WRECK. NO OTHER WRECKAGE IS PROUD OF THE SEABED AND THE WHOLE AREA AROUND THE SCOUR WAS SWEPT TO WITHIN THREE FT OF THE BOTTOM. (HMS ENTERPRISE, HI 39/68). AMEND TO SW 5FMS 1FT IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 232/69. H2395/73 9.1.74 H2395/73 9.1.74 EXAM'D IN 533237N, 001514E [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 11.5MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 9.8MTRS. SCOUR 12.1MTRS. NOT FOUND BY SSS BUT FOUND BY CLOSE SOUNDING IN CALM CONDITIONS. VERY CONSPIC SCOUR ABOUT 2.3MTRS BELOW GENERAL SEABED. SLIGHT REMAINS OF WRECKAGE ARE JUST VISIBLE IN THE SCOUR ON E/S. (HMS ENTERPRISE, K6826/2). AMEND TO SW 9.1MTRS IN ENTERPRISE 1973 POSN. BR STD. 3.9.13 3.9.13 EXAM'D 19.5.13 IN 5332.619N, 0015.155E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 10.16 IN GEN DEPTH 11.1MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 18.0MTRS, WIDTH 15.0MTRS, HT 0.94MTR. SCATTERED REMAINS OF A WK. (NETSURVEY, HI 1401). AMEND WK 10.1MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WRECKAGE IN DEEP SCOUR

Position: 53 32.619 N,0 15.155 E

 

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