This is the information page about the shipwreck Topaz, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 52.209 N,6 10.572 W (53.87015, -6.1762)

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: TOPAZ

Length 53.4 meter, width: 8.1 meter, draught: 3.2, tonnage 506 ton
Load: railway: stock and construction materials

Cause: built by scott & co, bowling. owned at time of loss by w robertson. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 75 nhp, single shaft. passage for dundalk. went ashore, backed off and sank in deep water. (sii).

Year of registration: 1977

Water depth above wreck: 17 meter, Height above seabed: 130 cm

Known since: 1977, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H1270/77 26.10.77 DIVED IN 535202N, 061028W [OSI] USING DECCA. WK HAD CONSIDERABLE SALVAGE WORK CARRIED OUT BY RIZDON BEAZLEY IN 1892-1893 [SIC]. ALL STEEL RAILS WERE LIFTED PLUS ENGINES AND WORKING GEAR. HULL IS NOW STILL ALMOST INTACT. BOILER AND STERN HIGHEST PART ALMOST 3MTRS HIGH. GREATEST DEPTH RECORDED 23MTRS. (A SHARKEY, DROGHEDA SUB AQUA CLUB). ORIGINAL DATES FOR RIZDON BEAZLEY INCORRECT. INS AS USC 14MTRS. NC 44. 27.3.12 LOCATED 9.2011 IN 5352.2140N, 0610.5818W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 12.83MTRS. LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 7.5MTRS. LIES 110/310 DEGS (SIC). (INIS HYDRO, HI 1351). NCA. 27.3.12 LOCATED 9.2011 IN 5352.209N, 0610.572W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 12.85MTRS. LENGTH 46MTRS, WIDTH 9MTRS, HT 3.5MTRS. LIES 130/310 DEGS. (INIS HYDRO, HI 1351, POST SDC BATHY REPROCESSING). SINGLE HOLD, BOWS NW. SCOUR 0.5MTR DEEP INSIDE WK. COLLAPSED. AMEND WK 12.8MTRS IN REVISED POSN. SEP 2012/000059462 20.4.12 AMEND BY NM.

- NM 1752/12. 10.4.14 LEAST DEPTH 14.31MTRS. (IRISH WK LIST). 14.4.14 LEAST DEPTH CONFIRMED AS 12.84MTRS. (C MCKEON, GSI, EMAIL DTD 11.4.14). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, INTACT, BOWS NW, SINGLE HOLD

Position: 53 52.209 N,6 10.572 W

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