This is the information page about the shipwreck Slemish, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 44.68 N,1 42.15 W (49.686983333333, -1.6523333333333)

 

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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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4. Angelique
5. Boulgaria
6. Breakaway of yare
7. British influence
8. Bronte (ex-war coney)
9. Cab
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11. Calvados
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21. Eleni stathatou
22. Etoile des ondes
23. Fleuret
24. G-bagh
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27. General du temple
28. Hms capel
29. Hms edgehill
30. Hms rhyl
31. Hms truant
32. Imprenable
33. James b richardson
34. John kennedy
35. Karen folmer
36. Komet
37. L'aventurier
38. La fidele
39. Le merle
40. Lenda
41. Leopoldville
42. Louie bell
43. Marie anne de bretagne
44. May girl
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58. Promethee
59. Psi
60. Roger mado (possibly)
61. Roger mado (possibly)
62. Rombo
63. Saint brandan
64. Saint hubert
65. Saint-antoine
66. Saint-pierre des marins
67. Sainte marine
68. Slemish
69. Spolanda
70. Stade (possibly)
71. Stanley force
72. Strathalbyn
73. Tayo
74. Tipasa
75. Tracy's michelle
76. Tracys dawn
77. Ussa

 

Name: SLEMISH

Length 76.2 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1536 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1909 by ramage & ferguson. owned at time of loss by shamrock shipping co. triple expansion engine of 178nhp, single shaft. passage hull for cherbourg. torpedoed by u 772. (dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1944

Water depth above wreck: 54 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1944, last detected: 2017

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK IN 494500N, 014200W APPROX. (WW2SL) H3937/62 23.11.62 WK, LEAST DEPTH 43MTRS, IN 494441N, 014208W. (PARIS NM 62 35 16).

- NM 2213/62. 18.5.73 [EUR] POSN: 494443N, 014203W. NC 1106. 12.3.84 UNKNOWN WK, LOCATED BY DCS3 AND E/S, IN 494444N, 014206W [EUR]. LIES IN GEN DEPTH 54MTRS. (FR WK RECORDS NO.14591016). NCA. 22.9.88 DECCA CO-ORDS GIVEN. (REP DES CR ET EP). HH100/351/02 2.3.90 WK IN 494427N, 014203W, FIXED BY SYLEDIS. IDENTIFIED AS THE 'SLEMISH'. (P ENAULT, 3.2.90). NCA YET. 14.6.90 UNKNOWN IN 494441.2N, 014203.5W [EUR] POSN ACCURACY 100MTRS. LEAST DEPTH 43 IN GEN DEPTH 54MTRS. (FR WK RECORDS 1987 NO.14591016). NC 2613. HH351/352/01 8.7.91 LEAST DEPTH NOW 40MTRS. (BREST NM 91 24 31). G/S. 24.2.92 LOCATED IN 494443N, 014205W [EUR] DURING 1991. LEAST E/S DEPTH 40.7 IN GEN DEPTH 52MTRS. APPEARS TO BE BROKEN INTO TWO PIECES. LIES 045/225DEGS ON ITS STARBOARD SIDE. (FR WK RECORDS 1991 NO.14591016). NCA. 4.2.93 WK, LEAST DEPTH 42.6 IN GEN DEPTH 54MTRS, IN 494444.4N, 014204.2W [EUR] [+/-20MTRS]. (FR WK RECORDS 1992 NO.14591016). BR STD. SEP 2015/000182665 30.9.15 SHOWN AS WK 42MTRS IN 4944.680N, 0142.150W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7092 [ED 4, COR TO 11.8.15]. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN IN TWO PIECES, LYING ON STARBOARD SIDE.

Position: 49 44.68 N,1 42.15 W

 

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