This is the information page about the shipwreck Saracen, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 25.37 N,4 52.227 W (48.304416666667, -4.8459166666667)

 

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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.

 

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2. Amoco cadiz
3. Ar gwella
4. Ardgartan
5. Arras (or aviso)
6. Arrino
7. Avristan
8. Bagdale
9. Bango
10. Berthe
11. Bohlen
12. Cadix
13. Casablanca (possibly)
14. City of francfort
15. Eastlands
16. Eildon
17. Elektra
18. Emile allard
19. Eugene-gaston
20. F
21. Farraline
22. Ferdinand a
23. Fleur de marie
24. Francois joseph
25. Fredavore
26. Georgios
27. Grimstad
28. Gronant rose
29. Gyller
30. Hebe
31. Isle of hastings
32. Isma
33. Joannis carras
34. Justin
35. Kenilworth
36. Kleber
37. La victoire
38. Lady princess
39. Lake borgne
40. Lert
41. Magdeburg
42. Marga
43. Marie
44. Marquis des anges
45. Martinhall
46. Midnight sun i
47. Monksgarth
48. Mousse-bihan 4
49. Naja
50. Natcrest
51. Nero
52. Notre-dame du trezien
53. Octopus 70 (possibly)
54. Olympic bravery
55. Ouessantine
56. Padang
57. Pauline-louisa
58. Penhir
59. Peter sif
60. Reine du leon
61. Roca
62. Sappho
63. Saracen
64. Seaspray
65. Seybouse ii
66. Solferino
67. Star of new zealand
68. Surcouf
69. Swansea vale
70. Taboga
71. Tali
72. Tenbengern
73. Teucer
74. Throstle
75. Trym
76. U 767 (possibly)
77. Vauquois
78. Venus
79. Veroloch
80. Vesper
81. Volanta
82. Vordingbord (possibly)
83. Vorpostenbot
84. War balloon
85. Wilfred
86. Xenophon

 

Name: SARACEN

Length 103.6 meter, width: 14.6 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 3272 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore

Cause: built in 1911 by j priestman & co, sunderland. owned at time of loss by letricheux line ltd. triple expansion engine for 10 knots. passage bilbao for glasgow. sunk by mine laid by uc-36. (dods)

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 45 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: H2653/18 22.5.18 OB PA (1918) IN 482700N, 045100W. (BOT).

- NM 625/18. H4351/23 14.5.23 WK 23.8MTRS IN 482527N, 045230W. (PARIS NM 489A/23).

- NM 946/23. 14.4.77 SHOWN AS WK 25MTRS IN 482527N, 045223W [EUR] ON FRENCH 5287 [1976 EDN]. NC 3345. 19.8.77 WK 25.5MTRS IN 482530N, 045224W [EUR]. GEN DEPTH 45MTRS. OVER 50MTRS OR 1000TONS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1976). 3.5.84 WK OF SS 'SARACEN' IN 482530N, 045224.6W [EUR]. LEAST DEPTH 25.8MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 45MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1984). H1271/85 12.8.86 SHOWN AS WK PD 25.5MTRS ON FRENCH 5287 [1986 EDN]. BR STD. H4270/85 24.4.87 LOCATED IN 482524N, 045217W [EUR]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 34MTRS. (BREST NM 87 14 27).

- NM 1434/87. 23.5.90 BRITISH SS 'SARACEN' IN 482525.5N, 045208.5W [EUR] USING SYLEDIS. LEAST DEPTH 34MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 45MTRS BY E/S. SONAR LENGTH 100MTRS. EXAM'D BY DIVERS. WK IS BROKEN IN TWO, BOWS & STERN IN GOOD CONDITION. MASTS LYING ON THE WK. ORIENTATED E/W, LISTING 010DEGS TO STARBOARD. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14584054). HH100/351/12 25.4.97 LIES WITH 10DEG LIST TO PORT. MOSTLY COMPLETE WITH LARGE GASH BOTH SIDES JUST AFT OF BOWS. (MR M ROWLEY, MV MAUREEN CHARTERS, FAX DTD 24.4.97). NCA. 5.3.09 SHOWN IN 4826.365N, 0452.240W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6680 [3RD EDN 2003, CORRECT TO NM 42 29 08, 1:150,000, 3RD SCALE ADOPTION]. NC 2647. 22.10.09 SHOWN IN 4825.596N, 0449.381W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7122 [3RD EDN 2008, 1:25,000, LARGEST SCALE]. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, INTACT

Position: 48 25.37 N,4 52.227 W

 

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