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 (49.507617, -2.634383)

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: 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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