This is the information page about the shipwreck Tioga, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 35.904 N,1 25.069 W (55.295866666667, -1.17345)

 

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

 

Name: TIOGA

Length 71.1 meter, width: 10.5 meter, draught: 5, tonnage 715 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: collided in 5540.0n, 0130.0w and proved impossible to save. sunk by gunfire by one of the hm ships escorting the convoy. built in 1912 by the grangmouth & greenock dockyard co ltd. owned at time of loss by the anglo-american oil co. passage middlesborough for grangemouth. in ballast. triple expansion engine of 110 hp. machinery aft.

Year of registration: 1943

Water depth above wreck: 63 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1943, last detected: 2012

Details measurements/cartography: H3449/44 25.4.44 INS NDWPA IN 553600N, 012500W.

- NM 870/44. 16.4.45 POOR SONAR CONTACT IN 553530N, 012430W. POOR POSN. (EG 30, 16.4.45). H4622/71 14.9.72 AMEND TO USCPA 28MTRS. NC 160. 3.8.77 AMEND TO USCPA 45MTRS. BR STD. HH090/843/01 22.12.99 EXAM'D 19.6.99 IN 5535.903N, 0125.062W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 55.1 IN GEN DEPTH 63.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS. DCS3 HT 7.9MTRS. LIES 000/180 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. REASONABLY INTACT. ATTITUDE UNCLEAR. (GARDLINE, HI 843). PROBABLY BROKEN IN THREE AND UPRIGHT. AMEND TO WK 55MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 27.7.00 VESSEL HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AS TIOGA. BELL HAS BEEN RECOVERED BY OTHER DIVERS. (R YOUNG, TELECON 27.7.00). NCA. SEP 2015/000220786 5.11.15 EXAM'D BY BDC, WK IN 5535.904N, 0125.069W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 54.5MTRS, LENGTH 51MTRS, WIDTH 11.2MTRS, HT 8.9MTRS. (DS22, CEFAS SURVEY 2012). AMEND NDW 54MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN IN THREE, PROBABLY UPRIGHT

Position: 55 35.904 N,1 25.069 W

 

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