This is the information page about the shipwreck Upas, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 28.831 N,5 25 W (54.233466666667, -5.7177166666667)

 

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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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Name: UPAS

Length 51.2 meter, width: 7.8 meter, draught: 3.1, tonnage 470 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1913 by j fullerton & co ltd. owned at time of loss by j fisher & sons ltd. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 72hp, single shaft. machinery aft by ross & duncan, glasgow. passage ayr for waterpoint. foundered off ballyhalbert co down in heavy seas after cargo shifted. six men lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1979

Water depth above wreck: 16 meter, Height above seabed: 80 cm

Known since: 1979, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: H444/67 24.8.79 H444/67 24.8.79 DIVED ON JULY 1979 IN 542851N, 052454W. SITTING UPRIGHT IN ONE PIECE. IN BAD STATE OF DISINTEGRATION. IN 70FT GEN DEPTH AT HW. (R V BARR 16.8.79). INS AS USC 9MTRS.

- NM 2185/79. [WGD] POSN: 5428.860N, 0524.976W. 20.9.13 20.9.13 EXAM'D 4.6.13 IN 5428.831N, 0525.000W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 14.67 IN GEN DEPTH 16.7MTRS. SCOUR 3.1MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 50MTRS TOWARDS 282 DEGS. LENGTH 30.4MTRS, WIDTH 8.6MTRS, HT 2.95MTRS. LIES 090/270 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1377). APPARENTLY IN TWO PARTS. AMEND WK 14.6MTRS IN REVISED POSN. 29.10.13 29.10.13 LEAST M/B DEPTH 13.4MTRS. (BDC EXAMINATION OF DIGITAL DATA). AMEND WK 13.4MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, DISINTEGRATING

Position: 54 28.831 N,5 25 W

 

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