Ref Title: | Survey Notes MDHB/MS/4/3/1/72 | Ref Note: | H3803/31 POSN 533924N 030350W H5533/52 16.9.52 WRECK BUOY REPD SUNK AND CONSIDERABLE SHOALING REPD CLOSE T WRECK (MERSEY DKS & HBR BOARD) H1797/56 23.11.56 WRECK IS REPD TO HAVE PRACTICALLY DISAPPEARED (RIBBLE NAVN & TH) H3542/68 14.10.68 BELIEVED TO THE IRON BARQUE MEXICO CITY. A CLOSE INSPECTION SHOWED AN IRON HULL ABOUT A QUARTER SUNK INTO THE SANDY SEABED BEYOND THE RIBS & SOME PLATING PLUS CROSS MEMBERS THE WRECK HAS BEEN STRIPPED THE HIGHEST PART BEING ABOUT 12FT ABOVE THE SEABED LENGTH OF WRECKAGE WAS 100FT AND WAS IN AN ADVANCED STATE OF CORROSION. IT MAS NOTED THAT THE WRECK IS USED BY THE LOCALS TO CATCH SHRIMPS AT LOW TIDE WRECK VISITED 29.7.68(IND UNRWTR ENTRS LTD REPORT DTD 9.10.68) |