This is the information page about the shipwreck Teal (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 49.524 N,1 14.231 W (54.825400, -1.237183)

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: TEAL (PROBABLY)

Length 67.1 meter, width: 8.7 meter, draught: 4.5, tonnage 716 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1876 by m pearce & co of stockton-upon-tees. owned at time of loss by the general steam navigation co. single boiler, compound expansion of 174 nhp, single shaft. passage leith for london. ub 26 fired torpede but missed. submarine went alongside and placed scuttling charges which failed to sink the ship. later torpedoed and sunk. crew recovered. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1988

Water depth above wreck: 27 meter, Height above seabed: 145 cm

Known since: 1988, last detected: 1999

Details measurements/cartography: H6330/87 15.7.88 H6330/87 15.7.88 SW 23MTRS IN 544931N, 011408W [OGB]. (GARDLINE, TLX DTD 19.6.88 FOR HI 414A).

- NM 2324/88. H6330/87 14.11.88 H6330/87 14.11.88 EXAM'D 7.6.88 IN 544931N, 011408W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [6 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 23.0, FOUL AT 23.2MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 22.9 IN GEN DEPTH 27.1MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 4.5MTRS. LENGTH 50MTRS, BEAM 7MTRS. LIES 145/325 DEG, WELL BROKEN BUT GIVING GOOD SONAR SHADOW. ACCEPT SWEPT DEPTH. (GARDLINE SURVEYS, HI 414A). NFA. HH100/351/08 14.3.94 HH100/351/08 14.3.94 DIVED ON IN JULY 1992 IN 544931N, 011412W USING GPS. THOUGHT POSSIBLY TO BE THE TEAL. LIES WITH BOWS N, WELL BROKEN UP AND PARTLY COLLAPSED INWARDS. ONE LARGE BOILER STANDS 3 TO 4MTRS ABOVE SEABED. REMAINDER OF WRECKAGE STANDS ABOUT 2MTRS HIGH. STERN PORTION LIES UPSIDE DOWN. (K A LAWRENCE). NCA. HH100/351/15 28.10.99 HH100/351/15 28.10.99 WK IS WELL BROKEN UP, HAVING COLLAPSED IN ON TOP OF ITSELF. THE STERN SECTION IS RELATIVELY INTACT WITH THE PROPELLER STILL ATTACHED. BOILER AND ENGINE ARE EXPOSED AMONGS A JUMBLE OF STEEL FRAMES AND PLATES WHICH ARE INTERMINGLED WITH PIPES. HIGHEST POINT IS THE BOILER. (R YOUNG, LTR DTD 26.10.99). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: MAINLY COLLAPSED, STERN INTACT AND INVERTED

Position: 54 49.524 N,1 14.231 W

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