This is the information page about the shipwreck Treveal, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 40.388 N,4 33.471 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.

 

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33. Lilly (possibly)
34. Liverpool
35. Mary
36. Mary coles (possibly)
37. Mhari l
38. Minerva
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42. President harbitz
43. Pt1 or pt2
44. River humber
45. Saint mirren (possibly)
46. Seagull
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49. Theme
50. Treveal
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52. Westward ho

 

Name: TREVEAL

Length 110.6 meter, width: 15.5 meter, draught: 7.9, tonnage 4160 ton
Load: ore

Cause: built 1909 by j readhead & sons ltd, south shields, with two boilers, 3 cylinder triple expansion engine of 374 nhp, single shaft. owned at time of loss by hain ss co ltd, st ives. passage algiers for barrow-in-furness. torpedoed by either u 53 or u 35. 33 lives lost. (sibi). torpedoed & sunk by german submarine u 53. (kried zur zee)

Year of registration: 1996

Water depth above wreck: 72 meter, Height above seabed: 332 cm

Known since: 1996, last detected: 20220414

Details measurements/cartography: HH208/400/02 11.7.96 EXAMINED 25.6.96 IN 534023.5N, 043328.3W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 60.2 IN GEN DEPTH 73MTRS. LENGTH 109MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. LIES 137/317DEGS. (NP 1008, HI 705, HN DTD 1.7.96). BR STD. HH090/705/01 3.10.96 ABOVE DETAILS REPEATED, BUT LIES 150/330DEGS. NO SCOUR, SIGNIFICANT MAGNETIC ANOMALY. LIES UPRIGHT IN AN AREA OF SANDWAVES. WK IS MAINLY INTACT, BUT BOW SECTION APPEARS TO BE BROKEN. (NP 1008, HI 705). HH100/35/15 20.12.99 WK HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS SS TREVEAL. (J SHAW, LTR DTD 8.12.99). SEE ALSO [7345]. NCA. H/ 12.2.01 IDENTITY CONFORMED AS TREVEAL BY RECOVERY OF BELL BY OTHER DIVERS. (S KERSHAW, WRECK 'N' TECH/G FURSE, TELECON 12.2.01) NCA. RSDRA2022000220871 7.10.22 EXAM’D 15.04.22 IN 5340.388N, 0433.471W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 61.59MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 72MTRS. LENGTH 108.83MTRS, WIDTH 18.25MTRS, HT 11.13MTRS. ORIENTATION 332/152 DEGS. UPRIGHT & INTACT, WITH SCOUR. (A-2-SEA SOLUTIONS LTD, HI 1707 H525_7494). AMEND NDW 61.59MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, INTACT, BOW PROBABLY BROKEN

Position: 53 40.388 N,4 33.471 W

 

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