Wreck: Vestra (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Vestra, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 45.774 N,1 7.815 W (54.762900, -1.130250)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: VESTRA
Length 65.8 meter, width: 9.8 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1020 ton
Load: coal
Cause: built in 1897 by ramage & ferguson, leith. owned at time of loss by j t salvesen. single boiler, triple expansion engine of 99hp, single shaft. passage tyne for rouen. cargo coal. torpedoed and sunk by ub 35. two men lost.
Year of registration: 1988
Water depth above wreck: 38 meter, Height above seabed: 105 cm
Known since: 1988, last detected: 1994
Details measurements/cartography: SANK 5 MILES NE FROM HARTLEPOOL. (WW1SL). H6330/87 15.7.88 H6330/87 15.7.88 WK 28.8 IN GEN DEPTH 37.6MTRS IN 544546N, 010743W. (GARDLINE SURVEYS, TLX 19.6.88, HI 414A). NCA YET. H6330/87 14.11.88 H6330/87 14.11.88 EXAM'D 28.8.88 IN 544546N, 010743W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [5 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 30.5, FOUL AT 31.0MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 29.8 IN GEN DEPTH 37.6MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 38.3MTRS. DCS3 HT 8.7MTRS, LENGTH 16MTRS, BEAM 5 MTRS. LIES 105/285 DEG AND GIVES GOOD SONAR RETURN, WHICH INDICATES A MAST. LEAST E/S DEPTH PROBABLY OBTAINED ON FISHING GEAR ATTACHED TO WK. ACCEPT SWEPT DEPTH. (GARDLINE SURVEYS, HI 414A). BR STD. HH100/351/08 11.5.94 HH100/351/08 11.5.94 WRECK CONFIRMED AS BEING VESTRA. BELL RECOVERED FROM BOWS DURING DIVING OPERATIONS. (K A LAWRENCE, LTR 13.4.94).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 54 45.774 N,1 7.815 W
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