This is the information page about the shipwreck Theme, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 30.9 N,4 42.521 W (53.546566666667, -4.6729833333333)

 

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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. Abbotsford
2. Adela (possibly)
3. Albert (possibly)
4. Alexandra
5. Angloman (possibly)
6. Apapa
7. Arno mendi
8. Asmund
9. Benholm
10. British viscount
11. Castilian
12. Clwyd (probably)
13. Cognac
14. Conargo
15. Cressado
16. Cressida
17. Dagmar
18. Dundalk
19. Fairisle
20. Farfield
21. Fawn (possibly)
22. Ferocious
23. Fin-ar-bed
24. Guillermo
25. Harold
26. Herbert
27. Hildena
28. Hms campina
29. Hms westphalia (possibly)
30. Kirkmichael
31. La rochelle (possibly)
32. Lightstone (probably)
33. Lilly (possibly)
34. Liverpool
35. Maarten cornelis
36. Marquess of bute (possibly)
37. Mary
38. Meath
39. Minerva
40. Missouri
41. Normandy coast
42. Opal (possibly)
43. Oria
44. Osseo
45. Pegasus (possibly)
46. President harbitz
47. Rhyl
48. River humber
49. Saint olaf
50. Sarpfos
51. Seagull
52. Slieve bloom
53. Sonia
54. Theme
55. Town of wexford (possibly)
56. Treveal
57. U 1024 (probably)
58. U 246
59. Uss roanoke
60. Vivar
61. Westward ho

 

Name: THEME

Length 53.6 meter, width: 8.1 meter, tonnage 504 ton
Load: coal

Cause: 25.12.1895 built in 1895 by ailsa shipbuilding co ltd, troon. owned at time of loss by w a grainger, belfast. single boiler, compound expansion engine, single shaft. passage swansea for belfast. cargo coal. last sighted off bardsey island on 25.12.1895. not seen again and posted missing at lloyd's. crew of 11 lost.

Year of registration: 1977

Water depth above wreck: 63 meter, Height above seabed: 145 cm

Known since: 1977, last detected: 20131106

Details measurements/cartography: H4827/75 24.1.77 EXAM'D 23.11.76 IN 533054N, 0044227W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 59.8MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 63.0MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 7MTRS. DCS3 HT 7.0MTRS. SEDIMENTARY SEABED. LIES NW/SE. INTACT AND PROBABLY UPRIGHT. JUST PROTRUDES ABOVE LEVEL OF SURROUNDING SEABED. (HMS FOX, HI 54/76). INS AS WK 60MTRS. BR STD. 17.7.01 DIVED IN LISTED POSN BY S A ROGER. BELL RECOVERED INSCRIBED WITH DATE OF 1894. WK IS INTACT AND UPRIGHT WITH THE BOWS SMASHED, POSSIBLY FROM COLLISION. (J SHAW, TELECON). NCA. 11.3.14 EXAM'D 6.11.13 IN 5330.900N, 0442.521W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 58.77 IN GEN DEPTH 63.5MTRS. LEAST W/C DEPTH 57.6MTRS. NO SCOUR (SIC). LENGTH 55.0MTRS, WIDTH 7.5MTRS, HT 5.9MTRS. LIES 145/325 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. UPRIGHT, BOW DISTORTED AND RAISED. (NETSURVEY, HI 1420). INTACT, BOWS SE, DAMAGE TO STBD SIDE OF FWD HOLD. AMEND WK 57MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, BOWS SE, DAMAGE STBD SIDE FWD HOLD

Position: 53 30.9 N,4 42.521 W

 

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