This is the information page about the shipwreck Walpas (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 44.217 N,5 22.45 W (52.604766666667, -5.5701166666667)

 

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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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28. U 87 (part of) (possibly)
29. Walpas (possibly)
30. Yturri bide (possibly)

 

Name: WALPAS (POSSIBLY)

Length 38.7 meter, width: 9.3 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 312 ton

Cause: built of wood in 1901 by e ecklund, raumo. owned at time of loss by augustus westberg, luvia, finland. russian flag. three masts, single deck. passage fleetwood for cadiz. cargo pitch. captured by a german submarine, crew abandoned, vessel sunk by scuttling charges.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 72 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 1982

Details measurements/cartography: M22028 2.5.18 SUNK ABOUT 15 MILES W BY N OF BARDSEY. (BOT MASTER). M09548 6.5.18 20 MILES WNW (MAG) OF BARDSEY HD. (AP HOLYHEAD). H1935/80 7.10.82 EXAM'D 19.10.81 IN 524413N, 052227W [OGB] USING RO/RO HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 70 IN GEN DEPTH 72MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 0.5MTRS. DCS3 HT 3.6MTRS. V SMALL CONTACT WITH GOOD SONAR SHADOW, BUT NOT POSSIBLE TO DETERMINE LENGTH OR ORIENTATION FROM TRACE. APPEARS TO LIE N/S FROM TRACK PLOT. ANOTHER BOTTOM FEATURE ADJACENT TO THIS WK WAS EXAM'D BUT DID NOT REGISTER ON E/S. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 3). INS AS WK 68MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 44.217 N,5 22.45 W

 

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