This is the information page about the shipwreck Wear, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 30.457 N,2 38.063 W (49.465666666667, -2.6346666666667)

 

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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. Adamantious lemos (possibly)
2. Agenoria
3. Ambassadrice
4. Antoinette
5. Auguste and louise
6. Beauport
7. Belfort
8. Bess mitchell
9. Bizon (possibly)
10. Bizon (probably)
11. Brighton
12. Briseis
13. Buzuzlo (ex weston)
14. Capri
15. Captain niko
16. Channel queen
17. Charles
18. Cid
19. Clarrie
20. Constantia s (fwd part)
21. Corail
22. Dagenham
23. Dambuster
24. Dr rudolf wahrendorff
25. Dromore
26. Dunsinane
27. Ella
28. Evasion
29. Fermain
30. Figaro
31. Ford power
32. Foreland
33. Forth
34. Goureux
35. Grandest
36. Guyona
37. Helge (possibly)
38. Helge (possibly)
39. Hms dragon
40. Hopper
41. Ida (ex abbey town)
42. Jeanne marie
43. Jesmond
44. Josef joham (stern half) (probably)
45. Juene marie
46. Jules
47. Kondor (probably)
48. La havre
49. La salle
50. Le poilu
51. Mako
52. Mary toovey
53. Maud pierre andre (possibly)
54. Mon ami
55. Ocean queen
56. Oost vlaanderen
57. Prosperity (stern section)
58. Rabbi
59. Raffio
60. Rhona (probably)
61. Rontegui
62. Saint louis
63. San nicolau
64. Santez-anna
65. St louie
66. St malo (possibly)
67. Stella (probably)
68. To venner
69. Uc 18
70. Ullyses
71. Vedanta
72. Victorine
73. Ville de malaga
74. Waverley
75. Wear
76. Western belle
77. Yorouba

 

Name: WEAR

Length 67.7 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1076 ton
Load: coal

Cause: vessel, built in 1905 by s p austin & son and owned at the time of loss by witherington & everett, struck a rock off the w coast guernsey and foundered. was on passage the tyne to st servan. (dods).

Year of registration: 1969

Water depth above wreck: 8 meter

Known since: 1969, last detected: 1969

Details measurements/cartography: REPD SUNK IN 492722N, 024155W IN 18FMS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H1270/71 12.12.69 LOCATED ON NW GRUNES IN 25FT OF WATER, ABOUT 50YDS NE OF WK OF THE 'DAGENHAM'. EXTENSIVELY SALVAGED. (CHANNEL ISLANDS SALVAGE CO.). NCA YET. POSN 493025N, 023759W FOR FILING ONLY.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 30.457 N,2 38.063 W

 

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