This is the information page about the shipwreck Waikawa (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 14.148 N,3 33.024 W (50.207816666667, -3.7034)

 

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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. Aldershot
2. Ambassador
3. Amelie (probably)
4. Amelie-suzanne
5. Angelena bm 271
6. Ann marie (possibly)
7. Antonio (probably)
8. Avalon g ii
9. Ave
10. Baychattan
11. Belle ile (possibly)
12. Bleamoor (probably)
13. Blue marlin
14. Bretagne
15. Bretton hall
16. Broadmayne (part of)
17. Brunhilda
18. Buesten
19. Bull steamer (possibly)
20. Cantabria
21. Catherine allen
22. Chloe t
23. Christoffel colombus (possibly)
24. Claverley (possibly)
25. Claverley (possibly)
26. Colorado (possibly)
27. Demetrios
28. Dudley rose
29. Eagle
30. Elsa
31. Elsa (possibly)
32. Emma
33. Emsstrom
34. Farn
35. Fiona mary
36. Flourish
37. Garm (possibly)
38. Gefion
39. Girl barbara
40. Glocliffe
41. Glory
42. Greatham
43. Grelhame (probably)
44. Gro
45. Halloween
46. Haugastol (possibly)
47. Havbris (probably)
48. Hazelpark (possibly)
49. Herzogin cecilie
50. Heye p
51. Hildegard (possibly)
52. Hms benton castle
53. Hms chorley (possibly)
54. Hms crocodile
55. Hms jasper (possibly)
56. Hms newbridge (probably)
57. Hms penylan (e part)
58. Hms penylan (w part)
59. Hms picton castle
60. Hms savage
61. Hmsm d1
62. Irma germaine (possibly)
63. Jade star gypsy
64. Jordan a
65. Karen marie (probably)
66. Kendal castle
67. Laertes
68. Lb 332 or lb 362 (possibly)
69. Les mercenaires
70. Liberta
71. Lofoten (probably)
72. Lord stewart
73. Maine
74. Marana (bow section)
75. Marie des isles
76. Medina
77. Mudstomper (probably)
78. Neches (probably)
79. Newholm
80. North sea (probably)
81. Northville (possibly)
82. Perm (possibly)
83. Peronne
84. Placidas faroult
85. Quest
86. Rayder
87. Riversdale
88. Rota
89. Sarah jayne
90. Sevilla
91. Shirley betty
92. Skaala
93. Soudan
94. Stanhope
95. Ster de zee (possibly)
96. Taeping
97. Talvaldis (possibly)
98. Ternefjell
99. Two sisters
100. Uc 49 (probably)
101. Uc 51
102. Uskmoor (probably)
103. Visborg (possibly)
104. W.s.w. one
105. Waikawa (possibly)
106. Warsaw
107. Wreathier
108. Yvette bm217

 

Name: WAIKAWA (POSSIBLY)

Length 128.4 meter, width: 16.8 meter, draught: 8.7, tonnage 5666 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: ex-maritime, ex-schlesien. built in 1907 by flensburgr schffsb, ges, flensburg. owned at time of loss by the union ss co of new zealand. three boilers, quadruple expansion engine of 507 nhp, single shaft. passage le havre for barry. torpedoed by ub-31. (ll ww1, sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 53 meter, Height above seabed: 157 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: H6025/39 22.8.39 H6025/39 22.8.39 WK IN 501406N, 033258W. (HMS GLEANER). CHART AS NDWPA. - FNM. H2502/51 24.4.51 H2502/51 24.4.51 SUNK IN 501408N, 033251W. 22FMS OVER WRECK. HEIGHT ABOVE SEABED 44FT. (HMS SEAGULL, SURVEY [E8881]). AMEND TO WK SW 20FMS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H2502/51 8.3.54 H2502/51 8.3.54 SALVAGE OPERATIONS IN THIS AREA. (NAVEAM 4884). POSSIBLY THIS WK. NCA. H2502/51 10.3.54 H2502/51 10.3.54 SALVAGE COMPLETED. (NAVEAM 4901). NCA. H2502/51 8.10.52 H2502/51 8.10.52 LOCATED IN 501406N, 033258W USING HSA. WIRE DRIFT SWEPT CLEAR AT 20FMS, FOUL AT 21FMS. GENERAL DEPTH 28FMS LEAST DEPTH BY E/S 23FMS. WRECK IS NOT OF VERY GREAT EXTENT. EXCELLENT A/S CONTACT. (HMS SCOTT, 6.5.52). AMEND TO WK 20FMS IN REVISED POSN. H2137/54 23.6.54 H2137/54 23.6.54 WK IN 501406N, 033254W USING DECCA. START PT 079DEGS, 3.7M. (RISDON BEAZLEY LTD., FEB/MAY 1954). NCA. H2137/54 21.7.70 H2137/54 21.7.70 NOW CHARTED AS SW 37MTRS. NC 1634. H2396/77 10.3.77 H2396/77 10.3.77 WK IN 501407N, 033256W USING DECCA. ABOUT 410FT LONG BY SONAR. LYING APPROX N/S, BOWS N. RIGHT OVER ON STARBOARD SIDE. RISE ABOUT 45FT. LEAST DEPTH BY E/S 133FT REDUCED. SEABED ABOUT 180FT. NOT MUCH SCOUR. ALL BUT ONE DIVE ON WK MADE IN POOR UNDERWATER VISIBILITY. STERN PART OF SHIP LIES OVER 90DEGS TO STARBOARD, CENTRE CASTLE PERHAPS MORE. SHIPS SIDE, BY 3 AND 4 HOLDS, COLLAPSED INWARDS AND LIES OVER MORE STILL. NEAR 1 AND 2 HOLDS SHIPS PORT SIDE HAS BROKEN OFF CLEANLY AND DROPPED DOWN INTO HOLDS. UPPER DECK HAS FALLEN TOWARDS SHIPS BOTTOM SO PORT DECK EDGE AND PORT BILGE KEEL RUN SIDE BY SIDE. FORECASTLE MAY BE LISTING TO STARBOARD AS LITTLE AS 25DEGS. WK IS MUCH BROKEN UP. THERE IS SOME TALK BY SUB-AQUA PEOPLE THAT THERE IS COAL LYING ON SEABED BY SOME OF HOLDS. NUMBER OF DIVERS SWIM LINES ON WK. SURVEY BY 'QUEEN MOTHER', MAY 1975, USING SONAR, E/S AND DIVERS. (RISDON BEAZLEY, 10.2.77). NCA.POSITIONS BELOW THIS POINT ARE IN DEGREES, MINUTES AND DECIMALS OF A MINUTE 7.5.13 7.5.13 EXAM'D 17.1.13 IN 5014.148N, 0333.024W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 41.6 IN GEN DEPTH 53MTRS. SCOUR 1.8MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 40MTRS TOWARDS 204 DEGS. LENGTH 133MTRS, WIDTH 22MTRS, HT 11.4MTRS. LIES 157/337 DEGS. INTACT, COLLAPSING. DEBRIS AROUND BOTH SIDES. (NETSURVEY, HI 1369). AMEND WK 41MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: VERY BROKEN UP, LYING ON STARBOARD SIDE

Position: 50 14.148 N,3 33.024 W

 

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