This is the information page about the shipwreck St andre, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 37.878 N,1 37.273 W (55.802333333333, -1.8619333333333)

 

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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.

 

1. Acclivity
2. Aepos
3. Alert (possibly)
4. Annie walker (probably)
5. Arbutus
6. Athelduke
7. Auckland castle
8. Aulton (possibly)
9. Baltanglia
10. Buka
11. Choice
12. Chris christenson
13. Coquet mouth
14. Cor jesu (possibly)
15. Coryton
16. Don (possibly)
17. Driebergen
18. Dutchman
19. Eglinton
20. Elziena
21. Elziena (possibly)
22. Emily reaich
23. Emma
24. Espire
25. Everene (possibly)
26. Ex-hmsm h 11
27. Fingal
28. Florence dombey (possibly)
29. George and mary (possibly)
30. Havilde
31. Hazard (probably)
32. Hesvik (possibly)
33. Hms ascot
34. Hms fortuna
35. Hms herring
36. Hms kopanes
37. Hms patia
38. Hooghammen
39. Hornchurch (probably)
40. Igor
41. Isbul & margarit
42. Jan van ryswyck
43. Lunesdale (possibly)
44. Maystone (possibly)
45. Merwede
46. Morlaix (probably)
47. Nidelven
48. Olimpia/?olympia (possibly)
49. Peik (probably)
50. Pluto
51. Provider a
52. Rising sun
53. Shadwan
54. Skovdal (probably)
55. Snowdonia
56. Somali
57. Spey (possibly)
58. Sphynx
59. St andre
60. St fergus
61. Tadorne
62. The tetrarch (probably)
63. Thistle
64. Thomas jackson (possibly)
65. Tillycorthie
66. Tioga
67. U 1274
68. Venus

 

Name: ST ANDRE

Length 70.1 meter, width: 10.1 meter, tonnage 1121 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore

Cause: built in 1903. owned at time of loss by f bonnet. two boilers, triple expansion engine of ?900hp, single shaft. machiney by ne marine engine co, sunderland. passage caen for grangemouth. ran aground on crumstone in fog and later drifted off and struck staple i.

Year of registration: 1908

Water depth above wreck: 18 meter

Known since: 1908, last detected: 20200519

Details measurements/cartography: H3111/68 27.9.68 WRECKAGE REPORTED NORTH OF THE PINNACLES OFF STAPLE ISLAND IN APPROX 553749N, 013710W. AT A DEPTH OF BETWEEN 50 AND 90FT. COMPLETELY BROKEN UP. THE BOILERS ARE THE BIGGEST ITEM LEFT. KNOWN LOCALLY AS THE 'SAINT ANDREW'. WRECKED ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO IN THICK FOG. (B G SHEPPARD, LTR DTD 23.9.68). 9.12.74 POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS 'ST ANDRE' AFTER RECOVERY OF MAKER'S NAME PLATE. ENGINE MAKERS PLATE RECOVERED FROM WK. (P BAKER, LTR DTD 3.12.74). H1289/76 26.10.76 CONSISTS MAINLY OF PLATES. BOILER STILL INTACT. IN GEN DEPTH 70FT. (B RANNER, RAF WEST DRAYTON). 18.1.82 WELL BROKEN UP IN 17 TO 22.5MTRS. (BSAC WK REGISTER, VOL 4). HH090/843/01 21.12.99 EXAM'D 30.8.99 IN 5537.880N, 0137.270W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 14.9 IN GEN DEPTH 17MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 3MTRS, WIDTH 2MTRS. DCS3 HTS 2.8 AND 3MTRS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. TWO MINOR CONTACTS. POSSIBLE DEBRIS. (GARDLINE, HI 843). INS AS WK 14.9MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2021/000090526 1.4.21 EXAM'D 19.5.20 IN 5537.878N, 0137.273W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 14.83MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 18MTRS, LENGTH 19MTRS, WIDTH 5MTRS, HT 3.2MTRS. WK BROKEN UP WITH TWO BOILERS. (MERITAITO, HI1591). AMEND DW 14.8MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN UP WITH TWO BOILERS

Position: 55 37.878 N,1 37.273 W

 

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