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 (52.7959833, 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. Barrhill
10. Bertha
11. Boulderpool (after part)
12. Boulderpool (fwd part)
13. British triumph
14. Camilla weston
15. Cantabria (probably)
16. Cardanel
17. Castle galleon
18. Chevington
19. Clansman (possibly)
20. Continental (possibly)
21. Corchester
22. Cordene
23. Corduff
24. Courier (probably)
25. Cross sand ltv
26. Dashwood
27. David b summers
28. Efos
29. Ems
30. English trader
31. Ethel
32. Ethel radcliffe
33. Friesland
34. Fulgens
35. Galatea (possibly)
36. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
37. Gardenia
38. Geneva
39. George fisher
40. Georgia (for'd part)
41. Glen derry (probably)
42. Glynn
43. Hauxley (possibly)
44. Hector gannet
45. Hms agate
46. Hms caroline moller
47. Hms cloughton wyke
48. Hms dhoon (probably)
49. Hms dungeness
50. Hms force
51. Hms francolin
52. Hms glen prosen
53. Hms irvana (part of)
54. Hms kaphreda
55. Hms m a west (probably)
56. Hms tonbridge
57. Hms tranio
58. Hms vortigern
59. Hms washington (probably)
60. Hms william stephen
61. Hmsm c 11
62. Homefire
63. I t l anna b
64. Ilse
65. Ionian (probably)
66. Jessie maersk
67. Jevington court
68. Kenton
69. King egbert
70. La perouse (possibly)
71. Langeli (possibly)
72. Leelite
73. Londoner (probably)
74. Marden
75. Marsworth
76. Montferland
77. Murdoch (probably)
78. Nordborg (possibly)
79. Norman queen
80. Ole bull
81. Osprey
82. Otter
83. Oxshott (possibly)
84. Pacific (possibly)
85. Pegrix
86. Polaris
87. Prima
88. Regain
89. Robrix
90. Roine
91. Rose marie
92. Roxanna
93. Roy
94. Rye
95. Salvus ii
96. Seagull
97. Seaham
98. Sheaf water
99. St mark
100. Teddington
101. Thomas m (possibly)
102. Thursonian
103. Tregantle (possibly)
104. Trelissick
105. Trevethoe
106. Upminster
107. Vanguard
108. Varoy
109. Viola (possibly)
110. Walkure
111. War valley
112. Welholme (possibly)
113. Whintown (possibly)
114. White swan
115. White swan (possibly)
116. Willowpool
117. 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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