This is the information page about the shipwreck Yorouba, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 27.94 N,2 38.08 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. Cornelia
23. Dagenham
24. Dambuster
25. Dr rudolf wahrendorff
26. Dromore
27. Dunsinane
28. Ella
29. Evasion
30. Fermain
31. Figaro
32. Ford power
33. Foreland
34. Forth
35. Goureux
36. Grandest
37. Guyona
38. Helge (possibly)
39. Helge (possibly)
40. Hms dragon
41. Hopper
42. Ida (ex abbey town)
43. Jeanne marie
44. Jesmond
45. Josef joham (stern half) (probably)
46. Juene marie
47. Jules
48. Kondor (probably)
49. La havre
50. La salle
51. Le poilu
52. Mako
53. Mary toovey
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. Seydlitz (possibly)
66. St louie
67. St malo (possibly)
68. Stella (probably)
69. To venner
70. Uc 18
71. Ullyses
72. Vedanta
73. Victorine
74. Ville de malaga
75. Waverley
76. Wear
77. Western belle
78. Yorouba

 

Name: YOROUBA

Length 82.3 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 7.3, tonnage 1910 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,natural fibres and materials in general: unprocessed and products,ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,oil,ore

Cause: lost in perelle bay. (channel island wks). wrecked on rocks off lihou in fog. (m g shean).

Year of registration: 1888

Water depth above wreck: 0 meter

Known since: 1888, last detected: 1979

Details measurements/cartography: 20.7.72 LOST IN PERELLE BAY. (CHANNEL ISLAND WKS). NCA. POSN 492800N, 024000W FOR FILING ONLY H3635/71 3.9.79 CARGO INCLUDED WOOL, COTTON GOODS, OIL, IRON ORE & GENERAL SUNDRIES. (M G SHEAN, SEVERNSIDE BSAC, 6.8.79). NCA. 17.5.99 FILING POSN AMENDED TO 4928.00N, 0238.00W [EUR]. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 27.94 N,2 38.08 W

 

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