This is the information page about the shipwreck Venus, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 48.14 N,1 51.716 W (55.802333, -1.861933)

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: VENUS

Length 63.7 meter, width: 8.7 meter, draught: 4.1, tonnage 715 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-fri, ex-sif, ex-serantis. built of steel in 1872 by a simey & co, sunderland. owned at time of loss by akties dmpsk. single boiler, compound expansion engine of 111hp, single shaft. machinery by j stewarts, london. passage blyth for drammen. cargo coal. detonated a mine laid by uc 50 and later foundered. (sibi, ll ww1)

Year of registration: 1919

Water depth above wreck: 55 meter, Height above seabed: 16 cm

Known since: 1919, last detected: 20200327

Details measurements/cartography: H2501/19 [NO DATE] POSN 554730N, 015100W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED) INS AS WK [OLD SYMBOL]. H4214/26 [NO DATE] ERASED WRECK FROM CHARTS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED) 19.1.00 AMENDED TO DEAD. NCA. HH090/915/01 17.1.02 EXAM'D 1.6.01 IN 5548.144N, 0151.708W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 48.6 IN GEN DEPTH 55MTRS. SCOUR <0.5MTR EXTENDS 50MTRS TOWARDS 140DEGS. LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS. DCS3 HT 6.9MTRS. LIES 012/192DEGS WITH BOWS TOWARDS 012DEGS. DEBRIS EXTENDS 12MTRS TOWARDS012 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT AND UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 915). BR STD. 16.3.09 DIVED WEEKEND 28.2.09-1.3.09, LOCATED IN 5548.129N, 0151.729W. POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS VENUS BY SEAHOUSES DIVERS WHO RECOVERED THE BELL 4 YEARS AGO. (I EASINGWOOD, MARINE QUEST, E-MAIL 4.3.09) NCA. SEP 2021/000090526 1.4.21 EXAM'D 27.3.20 IN 5548.140N, 0151.716W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 49.16MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 55MTRS, LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS, HT 5.8MTRS, ORIENTATION 016/196 DEGS. WK UPRIGHT AND MOSTLY INTACT WITH BROKEN BOW. (MERITAITO, HI1591). AMEND NDW 49MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, BOWS NNE

Position: 55 48.14 N,1 51.716 W

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