This is the information page about the shipwreck Tyrhaug, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 18.954 N,5 35.507 W (50.315900, -5.591783)

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: TYRHAUG

Length 70.4 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 1483 ton
Load: foodstuffs: solid,timber

Cause: ex -kjled. built in 1906 by fredrikstad mek. verks, fredrikstad. owned at time of loss by the shipping controller. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 132 nhp, single shaft. passage belfast for falmouth. torpedoed by ub-103. two men lost. (ll ww1 & sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 34 meter, Height above seabed: 131 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2010

Details measurements/cartography: 25.3.18 25.3.18 SUNK IN 501900N, 053300W. (A P FALMOUTH). H6391/19 H6391/19 CHART AS WK [OLD SYMBOL]. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BA 777. H2537/28 28.8.28 H2537/28 & H4337/28 28.8.28 NOW CHARTED AS NDW PA. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BA 777. H1270/71 7.1.72 H1270/71 7.1.72 PRESUMED TO BE TYHAUG OR PRINCE TYHAUG IN 501915N, 053533W USING DECCA. VESSEL APPROX 1000-1250 TONS LYING NNW/SSE. SETTLED ON PORT SIDE, BOILERS FALLEN OUT OF WRECK AND LYING BY STERN WHICH HAS BROKEN OFF. SOME SALVAGE HAS BEEN ATTEMPTED AS PROP AND STERN TUBE MISSING. SHOALEST POINT 105FT IN 120FT [84FT AFTER 21FT TIDE DEDUCTION]. (MR MATHEWS, 22.11.71). AMEND TO WK 25.5MTRS IN NEW POSN. NC 1149. H2959/73 11.7.73 H2959/73 11.7.73 MAGNETOMETER CONTACT ABOUT 2C S OF ABOVE POSN. (E GILES). 4.5.78 4.5.78 NOW CHARTED AS WK 25MTRS [DECIMETRES NOT SHOWN]. NC 1178. HH100/351/14 13.11.98 HH100/351/14 13.11.98 NOT LOCATED BY MAGNETOMETER SEARCH AROUND LISTED POSN. INDICATIONS OF WRECKAGE NOTED ABOUT 2 CABLES SOUTH. (G J LOCKETT, 11.11.98). NCA. HH100/351/15 17.9.99 HH100/351/15 17.9.99 DIVED IN 5018.960N, 0535.500W [WGD] USING DGPS. LENGTH 60MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS. HT 4MTRS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. LIES NNW/SSE WITH BOWS N. SEABED ROCK, SAND AND SHINGLE. AN AREA SOME 200MTRS RADIUS FROM THE PREVIOUSLY LISTED POSN SEACHED WITH NO INDICATION ON MAGNETOMETER. NO ANOMALY NOTED. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY IN LOCATED POSN. LITTLE SEEN ON E/S. (A D STOTT, 17.9.99). RETAIN AS WK 25MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 2.7.01 2.7.01 LOCATED IN 5018.926N, 0535.448W [WGD]. STANDS 5MTRS HIGH BY E/S. (J ROSEVEARE, TELECON). AMEND POSN. BR STD. 16.12.11 16.12.11 LOCATED 19.3.10 IN 5018.954N, 0535.507W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 30.23 IN GEN DEPTH 34.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 18.5MTRS, WIDTH 12.2MTRS, HT 4.27MTRS. LIES 131/311 DEGS WITH BOWS NW. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). AMEND WK 30MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL FLATTENED, BOWS NW

Position: 50 18.954 N,5 35.507 W

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