This is the information page about the shipwreck Serica (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 54.421 N,6 19.519 W (49.907017, -6.325317)

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: SERICA (POSSIBLY)

Length 98 meter, width: 12.3 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 2652 ton
Load: coal

Cause: 19.11.93 built in 1888 by black, hawthorne & co ltd, sunderland. owned at the time of loss by r gordon & co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 210 nhp, single shaft. passage cardiff for port said. arrived scillies 19.11.93 with extensive storm damage. after some repair sailed for plymouth to obtain new lifeboats. under pilot control and in clear weather, struck a supposedly uncharted rock and began to fill. was run ashore hear the woolpack beacon. at hw the upper deck was almost submerged. was examined for salvage but by 27.12 had began to break up and by 3.1.94 was declared ctl. no lives lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1969

Water depth above wreck: 8 meter

Known since: 1969, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: H3542/68 21.5.69 H3542/68 21.5.69 WRECK IN 495424N, 061925W ON BARTHOLOMEW LEDGES, ST MARY'S, BUT THE WRECKAGE IS REPORTED SOME 0.25M AWAY TO THE E OF WOOLPACK POINT (NOW CALLED SERICA POINT BY THE LOCALS). PASSAGE CARDIFF FOR PORT SAID. (R EDMONDS, REPORT 13.5.69). POSN FOR FILING ONLY. H2568/71 14.11.73 H2568/71 14.11.73 NOT INVESTIGATED. INFORMATION FROM LOCAL SOURCES, CONSIDERED RELIABLE, STATE VESSEL STRUCK UNCHARTED ROCK (NOW CALLED SERICA ROCK) IN ST MARY'S SOUND WHILST OUTWARD BOUND FROM ST MARY'S AND RAN ASHORE ON WOOLPACK POINT. WRECKAGE LOCATED 1971 BY MR COWAN IN ABOUT 40FT. VERY BROKEN UP AND LYING IN GULLIES BETWEEN THE ROCKS. NON DANGEROUS. (HMS HECATE, ROS DTD 16.7.73). NCA. 18.1.82 18.1.82 WRECKAGE IN 495423N, 061920W. IN GEN DEPTH 3MTRS. (BSAC WK REGISTER, VOL 4). NCA. 21.11.13 SEP 2013/000010528 21.11.13 POSSIBLE WK 3.5MTRS HIGH SHOWN IN 4954.421N, 0619.519W [WGD] ON SHORELINE SURVEYS LTD SURVEY 'ST MARY'S ROADS', DTD 3.2013 [1:5000]. POSSIBLY SERICA. SURVEYED GEN DEPTH INS AS WK 8.6MTRS. INS AS WK USC 4.5MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 54.421 N,6 19.519 W

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