This is the information page about the shipwreck Uc 55 (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 60 3.186 N,0 58.067 W (60.342516666667, -1.0269666666667)

 

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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. Anglo dane
2. Borodinskoye polye
3. Day dawn
4. Destiny
5. Fitful head
6. Flynderborg (possibly)
7. Fraoch ban
8. G-beid
9. Girdleness
10. Gk 41/gr 41
11. Glenisla
12. Green lily
13. Gwladmena
14. Havaldan
15. Hms asia
16. Hms cheerful
17. Leonatus
18. Lunohods-1
19. Miss lucy 11
20. Murrayfield (possibly)
21. Ocean maid
22. Pionersk
23. Quo vadis
24. River lossie
25. Samba
26. Sea mist
27. Slavonic (probably)
28. Uc 55 (possibly)
29. Valkyrie
30. Verdant

 

Name: UC 55 (POSSIBLY)

Length 52.7 meter, width: 5.2 meter, tonnage 511 ton

Cause: vessel was suffering a mechanical failure and had surfaced to prepare to scuttle. sunk by gunfire from hm ships tyrade, sylvia and trawler moravia. (warships of ww1 & k heath).

Year of registration: 1985

Water depth above wreck: 103 meter, Height above seabed: 15 cm

Known since: 1985

Details measurements/cartography: H2334/84 18.12.85 EXAM'D 3.7.85 IN 600313N, 005757W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [3 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 97MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 103MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 5.6MTRS, LENGTH 50MTRS, BEAM 10MTRS. LYING 015/195DEG. SONAR TRACE INDICATES APPARENTLY A SUBMARINE. SEABED ROCK OUTCROPS IN SAND & GRAVEL. (NP 1008, HI 244). BR STD. [WGD] POSN: 6003.186N, 0058.067W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: PROBABLE SUBMARINE FROM DCS3 TRACE

Position: 60 3.186 N,0 58.067 W

 

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