This is the information page about the shipwreck Spyros, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 54.892 N,4 15.948 W (50.1442, -4.17415)

 

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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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Name: SPYROS

Length 59.4 meter, width: 9.2 meter, draught: 4.1, tonnage 749 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-saint remy, ex-angelus. built in 1889 by wood, skinner & co of newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by g angelatos. single boiler, triple expansion engine of 101 hp, single shaft. machinery by ne marine eng co of newcastle-upon-tyne. passage swansea for stockholm. cargo coal. foundered in heavy weather. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1977

Water depth above wreck: 74 meter, Height above seabed: 118 cm

Known since: 1977, last detected: 2006

Details measurements/cartography: H4514/76 4.4.77 H4514/76 4.4.77 WK IN 495456.8N, 041552.3W [OGB] USING DECCA. HT ABOVE SEABED 30FT IN GEN DEPTH 41FMS. (T ALLEN, 27.3.77). INS AS USC 66.0MTRS. NC 442. HH100/351/16 25.1.01 HH100/351/16 25.1.01 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. WK IS UPRIGHT ON A SANDY SEABED. BOW COMPLETE AND STANDS 3MTRS HIGH. WELL COLLAPSED BETWEEN BOW AND WHEELHOUSE. AFT OF WHEELHOUSE SINGLE ENGINE AND BOILER VISIBLE. STERN BROKEN. NO SIGN OF PROP OR PROP SHAFT. BELL RECOVERED IN 1999 ENGRAVED 'ANGELUS'. (L BISHOP). NCA. HH091/059/01 28.4.05 HH091/059/01 28.4.05 EXAM'D 6.7.04 IN 4954.892N, 0415.948W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 67.8 IN GEN DEPTH 74.2MTRS. SCOUR <0.5MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 10MTRS TOWARDS 298 DEGS. LENGTH 54MTRS, WIDTH 9MTRS, HT 5.9MTRS. LIES 118/298 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT. (GARDLINE, HI 1059). PROBABLY UPRIGHT, E END IS BURIED. AMEND WK 67MTRS. BR STD. 24.10.07 24.10.07 THIS WRECK HAS TWO BOILERS AND A COMPOUND EXPANSION ENGINE. THE HULL IS COMPLETELY BROKEN UP. CLOSE TO THE ENGINE ARE SOME LARGE BEARING SHELLS AND THE PROP SHAFT ENDS IN DEBRIS AT THE STERN WITH THE PROP LYING ON THE SEABED. A HELM INDICATOR ENGRAVED 'AMOS & SMITH, ENGINEERS, HULL' WAS RECOVERED. DEPTH IN SCOUR 78.6MTRS. (N R CHIPCHASE).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, COMPLETELY BROKEN UP, HIGH POINT AT CENTRE

Position: 49 54.892 N,4 15.948 W

 

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