Wreck: Sirius (possibly) (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Sirius (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 2.276 N,5 46.633 W (50.037933, -5.777217)
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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: SIRIUS (POSSIBLY)
Length 64 meter, width: 9.1 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 1005 ton
Load: coal
Cause: built in 1884 by bremer schffsb, ges vegesack. two boilers, compound expanion engine pf 99 nhp, single shaft. passage from penarth. believed to have been sunk by a mine. (sibi). torpedoed. (master's report 1918). sank when struck belbeck shoal in 500346n, 054438w. (coast-watcher at sennen cove, but master's report was accepted).
Year of registration: 1918
Water depth above wreck: 62 meter, Height above seabed: 160 cm
Known since: 1918, last detected: 2013
Details measurements/cartography: H3841/86 25.1.88 EXAM'D 18.9.87 IN 500216N, 054636W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 54.2 IN GEN DEPTH 61MTRS. NO SCOUR. HYDROSEARCH HT [SHADOW] 8.4MTRS; [VERTICAL] 14.1MTRS. LENGTH 53MTRS, BEAM 15MTRS. LYING 325/145DEGS WITH BOWS APPARENTLY NW. HULL IS BROKEN AMIDSHIPS AND THERE ARE HIGH POINTS NEAR BOW AND STERN. CHART AS WK 53MTRS. POSSIBLY THE SIRIUS [16276]. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 360). INS AS WK 53MTRS.
- NM 542/88. 10.2.14 EXAM'D 1.12.13 IN 5002.276N, 0546.633W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 57.2 IN GEN DEPTH 62MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 56MTRS, WIDTH 17MTRS, HT 4.6MTRS. LIES 160/340 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. APPARENTLY IN TWO PARTS, WITH SINGLE BOILER EVIDENT. (MMT, HI 1415). BOWS NW, BOILER AND ENGINE LIE CLOSE SW. AMEND WK 57MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: BOWS NNW, WELL BROKEN UP, SEE [16276]
Position: 50 2.276 N,5 46.633 W
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