This is the information page about the shipwreck Thomas deas, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 35.151 N,0 0.564 E (53.56915, 0.0936)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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: THOMAS DEAS
Length 38.2 meter, width: 7.1 meter, draught: 3.9, tonnage 276 ton
Cause: Built by smith's dock co, middlesbrough. owned at time of loss by j marr & son ltd. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 61hp, single shaft. lost following a violent explosion. considered to have been mined.
Year of registration: 1941
Water depth above wreck: 10 meter
Known since: 1941, last detected: 1970
Details measurements/cartography: H0833/41 10.4.41 SUNK 087DEG, 2.87M FROM GRIMSBY HYDRAULIC TOWER. SPAR SHOWS 2FT [LWS]. (HMS BEAVER I, 28.2.41). INS AS DW IN 533506N, 000043E. - PFNM 571/41, FNM 825/41 & NM 817/41. H0833/41 2.8.45 WK DISPERSED SATISFACTORILY. (HUMBER CONSERVANCY BOARD, 1945). AMEND TO NDW.
- NM 2302/45. H535/63 13.2.67 WK STILL THOUGHT A DANGER. E/S DEPTH OF 28FT REPORTED DURING TELECON WITH HUMBER CONSERVANCY BOARD DURING SUMMER 1959 WAS NOT LEAST DEPTH. (HUMBER CB, 13.2.67). AMEND TO DW. -NM 378/67. H535/63 12.5.70 EXAM'D BY BTDB IN 533508N, 000040E, ABOUT 0.5C NW OF CHARTED POSN. SWEPT CLEAR AT 25FT [BELOW CD]. (BTDB, 5.5.70).
- NM 912/70.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 53 35.151 N,0 0.564 E