Wreck: Security (possibly) (Tug)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Security (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 33.529 N,1 57.525 W (50.558817, -1.958750)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: SECURITY (POSSIBLY)
Length 31.1 meter, width: 7 meter, tonnage 189 ton
Cause: built in 1904 by j p rennoldston & sons, sunderland. owned at time of loss by the elliot steam tug co ltd. oil engine, single shaft. capsized and sank while standing by towed vessel which had broken free. four men lost. (sibi).
Year of registration: 1991
Water depth above wreck: 30 meter, Height above seabed: 151 cm
Known since: 1991, last detected: 2009
Details measurements/cartography: HH100/351/04 17.5.91 HH100/351/04 17.5.91 WK LOCATED AND DIVED ON TWICE IN 503331N, 015729W [OGB] USING DECCA. STATED BY SWANAGE FISHERMAN TO BE WK OF A LANDING CRAFT BUT DOES APPEAR TO BE SO. IT LIES ON EVEN KEEL. LENGTH ABOUT 30MTRS, BEAM 7-8MTRS. STEEL CONSTRUCTION WITH ROUNDED BOW. STANDS ABOUT 2MTRS ABOVE SEABED WITH BOW S. CYLINDRICAL OBJECT, PROBABLY THE BOILER, IS HIGHEST PART AT CENTRE OF WK. NO SIGN OF ENGINE OR PROPELLER. (M T WOOD, 9.5.91). CHART AS NDWPA. BR STD. 17.5.04 17.5.04 RECORD REVIEWED. AMEND TO NDW. BR STD. HH091/154/01 22.7.09 HH091/154/01 & SEP 2009/000108988 22.7.09 LOCATED 28.1.09 IN 5033.529N, 0157.525W [WGS] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 28.80 IN GEN DEPTH 30.7MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 26.1MTRS, WIDTH 12.4MTRS, HT 3.20MTRS. LIES 151/331 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1154). INTACT. AMEND WK 28.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT
Position: 50 33.529 N,1 57.525 W
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