This is the information page about the shipwreck Wheatflower (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 6.798 N,6 4.287 W (52.192216666667, -6.1479666666667)

 

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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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5. Begerin (possibly)
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7. Ceres
8. Cite d'aleth
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18. Highcliffe
19. Hildefjord
20. Hms kethailes
21. Jane grey (possibly)
22. Manchester market
23. No worries
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25. Pilar de larrinaga (possibly)
26. Rask (possibly)
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28. San conrado (possibly)
29. St672
30. Success
31. Thoralf (possibly)
32. Tripoli
33. Tweed (possibly)
34. U 1169 (possibly)
35. Uc 33
36. Vandalia (possibly)
37. Wheatflower (possibly)
38. Ydun

 

Name: WHEATFLOWER (POSSIBLY)

Length 33.6 meter, width: 6.7 meter, draught: 2.5, tonnage 188 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-seaforth, ex-le havrias, ex-seaforth. built in 1895 by south hylton shipbuilding & repairing co, sunderland. owned at time of loss by spillers ss co ltd. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 375 nhp, single shaft. machinery aft by hedley & boyd, north shields. passage cardiff for dublin. captured by u-86 and sunk by gunfire. (sii & ww1sl).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 83 meter, Height above seabed: 8.4 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20201006

Details measurements/cartography: 23.2.18 M9947 23.2.18 SANK 10 MILES SE BY S FROM TUSKAR RK. (IDSA FORM). H3140/69 13.5.77 H3140/69 13.5.77 LOCATED 30.9.76 IN 520646.4N, 060413.0W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 77 IN GEN DEPTH 86MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HEIGHT 8MTRS. ORIENTATION 010/190DEG. APPROX 70 MTRS LONG. (HMS FAWN, HI 55/76). POSSIBLY WHEATFLOWER. APPEARS TO BE PARTIALLY BURIED. INS AS WK 77MTRS. BR STD. [WGD] POSN: 5206.804N, 0604.247W. RSDRA2022000162411 20.03.23 EXAM'D BY BDC 06.10.20; WRECK LOCATED IN 520647.9N, 060417.2W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 81.15MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 83MTRS. LENGTH 50.81MTRS, WIDTH 25.84MTRS, HT 2.94MTRS, ORIENTATION 008/188DEG. (GSI SURVEY 2017). AMEND NDW 81.15MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: PARTLY BURIED

Position: 52 6.798 N,6 4.287 W

 

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