This is the information page about the shipwreck Seagull, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 36.377 N,4 35.258 W (53.546566666667, -4.6729833333333)

 

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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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Name: SEAGULL

Length 68.6 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 976 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built by leach & co in 1898. owned at time of loss by mackie & thompson. 184 nhp for 9 knots. triple expansion engines. torpedoed and sunk by german submarine. captain and 19 men were killed. passage le havre for liverpool. general cargo.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 64 meter, Height above seabed: 86 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 8 MILES NE OF POINT LYNAS. (LLOYDS WW1SL). HH208/400/02 25.7.96 WK LOCATED IN 533622.7N, 043515.1W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 53.6 IN GEN DEPTH 62MTRS. LENGTH 74MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS. LIES 088/268 DEGS. UPRIGHT AND MOSTLY INTACT. NO SCOUR. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (NP 1008, HI 705). BR STD. HH090/705/01 3.10.96 ABOVE DETAILS REPEATED. MEDIUM SIZED WK, MAINLY INTACT BUT SOME DETERIORATION AT THE E END. NO INDICATION OF SCATTERED DEBRIS. (NP 1008, HI 705). HH100/351/13 8.6.98 IDENTIFIED AS 'SEAGULL'. THE HULL IS UPRIGHT ALTHOUGH THE STERN IS COLLAPSING INTO A SCOUR. THERE IS A LARGE GUN ON THE STERN. HOLDS WELL SILTED. NO EVIDENCE OF CARGO. STANDS ABOUT 7MTRS FROM THE SEABED. (J SHAW, LTR DTD 2.6.98). NCA. 10.3.14 EXAM'D 16.11.13 IN 5336.377N, 0435.258W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 55.06 IN GEN DEPTH 64MTRS. LEAST W/C DEPTH 52.0 ON POSSIBLE MAST. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 74.4MTRS, WIDTH 10.3MTRS, HT 10.0MTRS. LIES 086/268 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. STERN SECTION WITH LENGTH 18.8MTRS BROKEN, LIES 108/288 DEGS. (NETSURVEY, HI 1420). UPRIGHT. AMEND WK 52MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, E END (STERN) BROKEN OFF, LIES 108/288 DEGS

Position: 53 36.377 N,4 35.258 W

 

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