This is the information page about the shipwreck Seaham, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 49.719 N,1 40.458 E (52.795983333333, 1.6965)

 

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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. Aberhill
2. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Alice taylor
5. Alster
6. Alston
7. Artemisia
8. Asteria
9. Ayrshire (possibly)
10. Barrhill
11. Bertha
12. Boulderpool (after part)
13. Boulderpool (fwd part)
14. British triumph
15. Camilla weston
16. Cantabria (probably)
17. Cardanel
18. Castle galleon
19. Chevington
20. Clansman (possibly)
21. Continental (possibly)
22. Corchester
23. Cordene
24. Corduff
25. Courier (probably)
26. Cross sand ltv
27. Daisy (possibly)
28. Dashwood
29. David b summers
30. Efos
31. Ems
32. English trader
33. Ethel
34. Ethel radcliffe
35. Friesland
36. Fulgens
37. Galatea (possibly)
38. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
39. Gardenia
40. Geneva
41. George fisher
42. Georgia (for'd part)
43. Glen derry (probably)
44. Glynn
45. Hauxley (possibly)
46. Hector gannet
47. Hms agate
48. Hms cantatrice
49. Hms caroline moller
50. Hms cloughton wyke
51. Hms dhoon (probably)
52. Hms dungeness
53. Hms force
54. Hms francolin
55. Hms glen prosen
56. Hms irvana (part of)
57. Hms kaphreda
58. Hms m a west (probably)
59. Hms nogi
60. Hms tonbridge
61. Hms tranio
62. Hms vortigern
63. Hms washington (probably)
64. Hms william stephen
65. Hmsm c 11
66. Homefire
67. I t l anna b
68. Ilse
69. Ionian (probably)
70. Jessie maersk
71. Jevington court
72. Kenton
73. King egbert
74. La perouse (possibly)
75. Langeli (possibly)
76. Leelite
77. Londoner (probably)
78. Marden
79. Marsworth
80. Meriones
81. Montferland
82. Murdoch (probably)
83. Nordborg (possibly)
84. Norman queen
85. Ole bull
86. Osprey
87. Otter
88. Oxshott (possibly)
89. Pacific (possibly)
90. Pegrix
91. Polaris
92. Prima
93. Regain
94. Robrix
95. Roine
96. Rose marie
97. Roxanna
98. Roy
99. Rye
100. Salvus ii
101. Seagull
102. Seaham
103. Sheaf water
104. Sir william stephenson
105. St mark
106. Teddington
107. Thomas m (possibly)
108. Thursonian
109. Tregantle (possibly)
110. Trelissick
111. Trevethoe
112. Upminster
113. Vanguard
114. Varoy
115. Vigo
116. Viola (possibly)
117. Walkure
118. War valley
119. Welholme (possibly)
120. Whintown (possibly)
121. White swan
122. White swan (possibly)
123. Willowpool
124. Xanthe

 

Name: SEAHAM

Length 50.9 meter, width: 9.1 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 535 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built of iron in 1870 t w smith & co, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by the goole shipping co. one boiler, two quadruple expansion engines of 80hp, twin shaft. machinery by the ne marine engineering co, sunderland. passage goole for ghent. cargo coal. foundered following collision with ss breeze. breeze had previously that day collided with ss orient.

Year of registration: 1982

Water depth above wreck: 27 meter, Height above seabed: 3 cm

Known since: 1982, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H1952/80 22.6.82 WK LOCATED IN 524942N, 014034E [OGB]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 23.5 IN GEN DEPTH 26MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.8MTRS. LENGTH 50MTRS. (ISS, HI 22). IN AS WK 21MTRS. BR STD. H1952/80 27.1.83 EXAM'D 2.6.82 IN 524942N, 014034E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 23.3, FOUL AT 23.6MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 23.5MTRS IN GEN DEPTHS 26 TO 27MTRS. SCOUR 2 TO 3MTRS DEEP TO NW & NE OF WK. DCS3 HT 4.8MTRS, LENGTH 50MTRS, BEAM 10MTRS. LYING, APPARENTLY INTACT, 010/190 DEGS, WITH HIGHEST PART AT S END. (SOISS, HI 22). AMEND TO SW 23.3MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/01 27.3.91 HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS WK OF COLLIER SEAHAM. STANDS APPROX 5MTRS HIGH AND IS INTACT EXCEPT WHERE SUPERSTRUTURE HAS COLLAPSED INTO HULL. (R W HICKINBOTTOM, 24.2.91). HH100/351/11 17.6.96 WK LIES UPRIGHT WITH NO DECK OR SUPERSTRUCTURE. ON SHINGLE SEABED. (T MASON). SEP 2015/000041896 21.5.15 EXAM'D 18.10.14 IN 5249.719N, 0140.458E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 23.57MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 3MTRS, EXTENDS 65MTRS TOWARDS 175 DEGREES. LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS, HT 5MTRS. LIES 003/183 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY HI 1427). AMEND DW 23.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: HULL INTACT & UPRIGHT, SUPERSTRUCTURE & DECKS COLLAPSED

Position: 52 49.719 N,1 40.458 E

 

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