This is the information page about the shipwreck Ulstermore, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 31.756 N,3 8.047 W (53.665666666667, -3.093)
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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.
Name: ULSTERMORE
Length 137.5 meter, width: 14.6 meter, draught: 8.2, tonnage 6411 ton
Load: general and mixed goods
Cause: built in 1894 by harland & wolff ltd, belfast. owned at time of loss by ulstermore ss co ltd, belfast. four boilers, triple expansion engine of 627nhp, single shaft. passage baltimore for liverpool. wrecked on taylor's bank revetment. (sibi).
Year of registration: 1981
Water depth above wreck: 13 meter, Height above seabed: 279 cm
Known since: 1981, last detected: 2021
Details measurements/cartography: 11.3.81 WK 6.5MTRS SHOWN IN 533145N, 030758W [OGB] ON MDHC SURVEY JAN 81 (K8577/4). NE 1951. HH091/124/01 10.5.06 UNABLE TO FULLY INVESTIGATE AS WK SITS ADJACENT TO UNDERWATER REVETMENT. EVIDENCE OF WK DEBRIS IN THIS VICINITY. RETAIN AS CHARTED. APPROX 30MTRS S IS AN OBJECT PROTRUDING FROM THE SEABED WITH HT 4MTRS AND LEAST DEPTH 20.29MTRS. SITS IN A HOLLOW IN THE SEABED AND MAY BE PART OF THE WK. DUE TO PROXIMITY AND GREATER DEPTH NOT REPORTED SEPARATELY. (HMSML GLEANER, HI 1124). NCA. SEP 2009/000030026 29.4.09 SHOWN AS WK 7.5MTRS ON MDH SURVEY 'ASKEW SPIT' DTD 30.3.09. BR STD. 12.1.10 REVERT TO WK 6.5MTRS. (R CAVILL, HRT 1A, 11.1.10). SEP 2021/000126174 11.5.21 EXAM’D BY BDC; IN 5331.762N, 0308.047W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 6.51MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 9MTRS, LENGTH 70MTRS, WIDTH 46MTRS, HT 2MTRS ORIENTATION 276/096 DEGS. NFS. (MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR COMPANY SURVEY, 2021). NFA. SEP2021/000271668 24.11.21 EXAM'D BY BDC 6.9.21 IN 5331.756N, 0308.047W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 7.72MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 14MTRS, LENGTH 71.0MTRS, WIDTH 36MTRS, HT 5.2MTRS, ORIENTATION 279/081 DEGS. NFS. (MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR COMPANY DTD 6.9.21, BDC H525.2 FEATURE REPORT). RETAIN AS CHARTED.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 53 31.756 N,3 8.047 W