Graveyard 8 wrecks and back

[big_sean]

to go to the grave yard and do 8 wrecks and back plots out at 63 miles from the royal quays allowing for extra fuel i would calculat it at 100 miles of fuel needed
so if your boat does about 5 miles per gallon then about 20 gallons would be needed so realy its not that far


Sean

 

[KeithB]

Yeah but there's nowt there.

A boat from SSBAC went last year, they came back with some mackeral.

 

[big_sean]

Yeah but there's nowt there.

A boat from SSBAC went last year, they came back with some mackeral.

have a look at the wildcard videos on the net he's been going there and doing alright there are that many wrecks there and lumps it takes a few trips to get the good masrks but when you do its fish galore and nearly always a better stamp of fish



Sean

 

[Norman]

I always plan to give it a go , and maybe this is the year .................... but .....
think I`m with keith on this ..... lol my best catch is almost casting distance from tyne piers

 

[big_sean]

i see what you mean norman my best catch ever was on the Telephone box we used to try it every time we went north and never did anything on it as people used to say there is nothing there but one day we went on the way home from a blanking trip and in three hours we had had enough 3 shots all the time and every fish was between 7 to 10lb

dont dismiss the graveyard but do remember the whitby boats are at it regulary


Sean

 

[Norman]

aye sean, aware of that

been 20 mile off and caught nowt , on a few occasions ..... lol but will probs do the trip soon ....... fingers crossed its worth it .......

norm

 

[mark]

thats a long long way from whitby!??

50 miles there and 50 back at 15knots thats over 6 hours of a fishing day gone, would of though getting out the wrecks at baymans hole/bruceys garden would be more attractive from whitby (who the flip was brucey anyway?)

there are some big wrecks there though, according to UKHO there's getting on for 40,000 tons of shipping in a 6 mile radius

got the details of most of em, names, tonnage, position and wrecks size (length width and height) at last survey if any one thinks it worth a shot.

There's probably some absolute red letter days to be had out there, but its a long way to go to discover your day isn't one of them!

 

[big_sean]

Mark its only 40 miles to the graveyard from whitby but i do admit its a long way to go for a blank


Sean

 

[mark]

just plotted it?? straight line to it 49.7Nm to the top end where the bigger ones lie


will PM you some stuff!

 

[Codfather]

Any info on the "nemisea" Mark, the wreck off Hartlepool ?

 

[big_sean]

some of the brid lads had a long trip the other day here is there report

i think they were about 30 to 40 miles off

deep offshore wrecking trip



Sean

ps what is the one on the chart called the auriga i think ??

 

[northeast1]

Mark is there any chanc eof you sending me that info? i love to know what i am fishing on and spend alot of time reading up on the wrecks on the net and in the local book worm lobby.

Hard to do thou as over the years the names have changed so much and the long n lat in the books dont match my records but i do liek to know the info...have some crackign tails and info on most of the well know wrecks around here.

Sojovik, Tracey, Adastra, tug to name a few.

 

[mark]

is it known by any other name?? and/or was that its name when built or sunk?

can search by position, or by name. A lot of wrecks that folks know and love are not what the wreck is

ie the Dirty wreck is a ship called the Firelight, the tracey is actually called 'spray'

 

[northeast1]

I have the spray down but its about 0.7 of a mile from the Tracey on my records, never caught anything but ling of it.

I have 317 wrecks in my list and only fished 64 of them, main reason is they to far away, i bet less than half still hold the original name.

 

[mark]

Any info on the "nemisea" Mark, the wreck off Hartlepool ?

filtered out the smaller ones, leaves this lot in pool bay

 

[mark]

the tracey is debris from spray when it was wire swept


*

WGS84 Position*
Latitude*
=xxxxxxxxx N*
*Longitude*
=*xxxxxxxxx W
WGS84 Origin*
Original
WGS84 limits*
--
*

Position Accuracy*
13 m
Horizontal Datum*
ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN (1936)
Position Last Amended*


Position

Position Method*:*Differential Global Positioning System

Position Quality*:*Surveyed
Limits*
--
*

Depth

Depth*:*38 m

Water Depth*:*46 m


Depth Method*:*Swept by wire-drag

Depth Quality*:*Least depth known

Height

Height*:*--

Drying Height*:*--
Vertical Datum*
Lowest Astronomical Tide

Water Level Effect*:*Always under water/submerged

Bottom Texture*:*Gravel
Sonar Signal Strength*
Strong

Sensor

Original Sensor*:*Reported Sinking

Last Sensor*:*Observed Sinking

Conspicuous

Conspic Visual*:*NO

Conspic Radar*:*NO

Contact

Non-Sub Contact*:* NO

Contact Description*:* Entire wreck
*
Name*
SPRAY
Type*
MERCHANT
Flag*
BRITISH

Dimensions

Length*=*68,6 m

Beam*=*10,1 m

Draught*=*4,3 m
Tonnage*
1072*Gross
Cargo*

Date Sunk*
14/04/1917

Detection

Original Detection Year*:*1926

Last Detection Year*:*1998

Source

Original Source*:*Other

Last Source*:*Survey Vessel
*

Sonar Dimensions

Sonar Length*=*86 m

Sonar Width*=*20 m

Shadow Height*=*7,1 m
Orientation*
80°
*
Magnetic Anomaly*
--
Debris Field*
CLOSE S OF WK

Scour

Scour Depth*=*0 m

Scour Length*=*--

Scour Orientation*=*--
*
Markers*
--
General Comments*
BADLY BROKEN
*
Circumstances of Loss*
**MINED 3.5M NE TYNE PIER.
*
Surveying Details*
**14.4.17 POSN 550400N, 011730W.
**H4212/26 1.7.26 NDWPA (1917) IN 550400N, 011730W. BR STD.
**H7018/58 12.11.59 EXAM'D IN 550402N, 011856W [OGB]. SWEPT CLEAR BY OROPESA 78FT. LEAST E.S DEPTH 135FT IN GEN DEPTH 156FT. NO SCOUR. (HMS SCOTT, SWEEP REPORT DTD 26.8.59). AMENDED TO NDW IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
**H4871/68 3.7.68 EXAM'D 27.10.67 IN 550403N, 011856W [OGB] USING HSA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 132FT IN GEN DEPTH 154FT. SCOUR DEPTH 155FT. HAS PERHAPS PARTLY BROKEN UP. LENGTH ABOUT 350FT. LIES NE/SW. (HMS MYRMIDON, HI 348/67). AMENDED TO WK 22FMS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
**H2433/71 22.4.71 NOT FOUND DURING AREA SONAR SEARCH. (ISS, HI 9/70).
**15.5.73 AMENDED TO WK 40MTRS. NC 152.
**HH090/796/01 7.1.99 EXAM'D 10.7.98 IN 550403.6N, 011900.9W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 38.9, FOUL 39.3MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 39 IN GEN DEPTH 46MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 7.1MTRS. LENGTH 86MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS. LIES 080/260 DEGS. BADLY BROKEN UP. SUPERSTRUCTURE VISIBLE. N SIDE OF WK OUTLINE NOT CLEARLY VISIBLE. DEBRIS ALONG THE S SIDE OF THE WK. (GARDLINE, HI 796). AMEND TO SW 38MTRS. BR STD.

 

[Codfather]

Ron young has a couple of good books on ne shipwrecks, worth a read if you hav'nt already.

 

[northeast1]

I still think its worth a bash, fished it twice now and granted i never got anything massive but did manage a canny few, mind it is hard work winding up from that depth.

I am not sure if my current sounder would be able to work at them depths.

Fuel wise, no bother i have a 18 gallon main tank and a 5 gallon back up as well as a further 8 gallon worth of plastic drums at home for fuel if required.

That dirty wreck, i have never caught anything but coalie off it and even they vanished last year.
Tracey fishes well on its day but often gets a hammering by private and charters as well known.

In fact its so easy now to find a wreck and set up a drift just about anyone can do it, only trick our days is finding a wreck that holds fish and is fishing...trial and error as no 2 days are the same.

Knowledge of what time of the tide fishes best on what marks/wrecks and so on helps..i.e slack water get your ling gear ready, fast drift pirks and leadheads etc what wreck fishes best in what direction of drift.

Rough ground is a little different, pockets of fish and once you found them you can bag up.

 

[boblydon]

Thats some pretty amazing details you have Mark, is that type of info available for all wrecks.

 

[mark]

yup, every wreck, foul and obstruction has the at least that detail, sometimes more

there's 14,000 entries on the database between the tees and berwick

I like the dirty wreck, had some canny ling off there over the years, incl a few doublers!