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 (48.422833, -4.870450)

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: 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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