This is the information page about the shipwreck Saphir, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 33.839 N,5 3.925 W (50.505016666667, -5.2049666666667)

 

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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. Acadian
2. Alcyon (possibly)
3. Angele (possibly)
4. Anna sophie
5. Antoinette (probably)
6. Arthurtown
7. Bard (possibly)
8. Bogstad
9. Brava
10. Brisk (probably)
11. Camelot challenger (possibly)
12. Carasa (possibly)
13. Carl
14. Castor 1
15. Cristina
16. Deputie gaston dumesnil (possibly)
17. Diligent
18. Dumfries
19. Elna e
20. Ezra weston (bow section)
21. Ezra weston (stern section)
22. Genevieve (possibly)
23. Germaine
24. Gregynog
25. Hanover
26. Hemsley 1
27. Hmcs regina
28. Hugin
29. Humbergate (probably)
30. Hunsgrove
31. Island maid
32. John taylor
33. Kai (possibly)
34. Lake edon
35. Lake owens
36. Lia'g
37. Lisa maria
38. Lombard (possibly)
39. Madryn
40. Marguerite pry
41. Maria asumpta
42. Mefjord (possibly)
43. Milly (possibly)
44. N verberckmoes (possibly)
45. Norma (possibly)
46. Onega
47. Orfordness
48. Pearn pride (possibly)
49. Peer gynt (possibly)
50. Petersham
51. Portugal
52. Prestige
53. Princess royal
54. Quarnero
55. Risoy (probably)
56. Rossmore (possibly)
57. Runswick
58. Saphir
59. Sarah anderson (possibly)
60. Shad thames
61. Shanes castle
62. Shoreham (probably)
63. Siracusa
64. Skopelos sky (after part)
65. Sphene (probably)
66. St george (possibly)
67. St joseph
68. St stanislas
69. Svint
70. Tagona
71. Towneley
72. U 1021 (possibly)
73. U 325 (possibly)
74. Ub 65
75. Warnow (possibly)

 

Name: SAPHIR

Length 74.4 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1406 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1901 in laxevaags, bergen. owned at time of loss by e lindoe. triple expansion engine of 132 nhp, single shaft. passage barry for bayonne. torpedoed by u-94. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1979

Water depth above wreck: 27 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1979, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: 25.5.18 25.5.18 POSN 1.5M NNW TREVOSE HD. (MASTER IDSA, DOCKET M25828) 30.5.18 30.5.18 POSN APPROX 1.5M NNW TREVOSE HD. (BOT MASTER, DOCKET M26438). 27.5.18 27.5.18 POSN 2M NW BY N FROM TREVOSE HD(AP FALMOUTH, DOCKET M010406). H1247/69 17.5.79 H1247/69 17.5.79 LOCATED IN 503352N, 050355W [OGB] USING DECCA. SMALL WK OF 200-300 TONS. (R DAVIS, 14.5.79). INS AS NDW. BR STD. 16.1.98 16.1.98 RECORD REVIEWED. NO OBVIOUS REASON WHY THIS RECORD WAS AMENDED TO DEAD. AMENDED TO LIVE. 26.7.06 26.7.06 [EUT] POSN: 5033.899N,0503.980W. BA 1168 [3RD EDN, JULY '02]. 24.11.11 24.11.11 LOCATED 26.3.10 IN 5033.839N, 0503.925W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 23.54 IN GEN DEPTH 27.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 27.4MTRS, WIDTH 9.2MTRS, HT 3.96MTRS. LIES 090/270 DEGS WITH BOWS W. (FUGRO OSEA, HI 1157).?WK. AMEND WK 23.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN. 16.7.13 16.7.13 THIS IS SAPHIR. LIES IN A STRAIGHT LINE, FULLY COLLAPSED, PARALLEL TO A ROCKY REEF. BOILER RISES TO 29MTRS FROM SEABED AT 32MTRS. (DIVER MAGAZINE, AUGUST 2013).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: COLLAPSED AND BROKEN UP

Position: 50 33.839 N,5 3.925 W

 

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