This is the information page about the shipwreck Alcantara, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 51.595 N,0 56.644 E (50.8163, 0.959)

 

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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. Actuality
2. Afghanistan (bow section)
3. Afghanistan (probably)
4. Albuera
5. Alcantara
6. Alice
7. Argonaut
8. Ash
9. Australier (probably)
10. Avoca
11. Bobby
12. Cabo espartel
13. Carlisle castle
14. Ceta (stern section)
15. Charente
16. Christianssund
17. City of dresden (possibly)
18. Corinia (possibly)
19. De fontaine
20. Dorothy j (possibly)
21. Durango
22. Eco vouga
23. Electra
24. Ella sayer
25. Empire lough (probably)
26. Enero (probably)
27. Euphorbia
28. Evg(no rx152)?
29. Excellence pleske
30. G-asad
31. Grit (probably)
32. Grosser kurfurst
33. Grosser kurfurst (possibly)
34. Gwendoline (part of)(possibly)
35. Henry moon
36. Heron
37. Hms anne
38. Hms blackwater
39. Hms caulonia
40. Hms city of dundee
41. Hms cleon
42. Hms ghurka
43. Hms myrmidon
44. Hms waterfly
45. Hmt gullfoss
46. Hoheweg
47. Holland
48. Hydaspes (possibly)
49. Irene
50. Jan brons
51. Jokai
52. Josephine willis
53. Katharina kolkmann
54. Kielce
55. Kingfisher (probably)
56. La somme (probably)
57. Lacer
58. Lady alice
59. Leila najia
60. Lepanto/le panto/panta/panto
61. Lighter 83
62. Lizzonia
63. Maxwell
64. Milbanke (probably)
65. Mon bijou/fias
66. Monarch
67. Morgenster
68. Mrav
69. My astor
70. Naranco
71. Negrier
72. Newcastle
73. Norman
74. Northfleet
75. Nunima
76. Portslade (possibly)
77. River levan
78. Robin hood
79. Roecliff
80. Roode zee (possibly)
81. Roseburn
82. Rydal hall (possibly)
83. Saint emilion (probably)
84. Saint jean pierre
85. Salbya (possibly)
86. Samida
87. Sea serpent
88. Seine
89. Shenandoah
90. Sierra bravia
91. Sir russell
92. Skerryvore
93. Sparta (possibly)
94. St cecilia
95. Storaa
96. Swale (probably)
97. T s webb
98. Tokufuku maru
99. Trooper
100. Ub 109
101. Ub 31 ?
102. Ub 58 (possibly)
103. Umba (probably)
104. Unity
105. Veerman
106. Ville de dunkirk (stern) (possibly)
107. Vittoria claudia
108. War monarch
109. Waterland (possibly)
110. Welsh belle

 

Name: ALCANTARA

Length 88.1 meter, width: 11.9 meter, draught: 5.1, tonnage 1682 ton
Load: ore

Cause: ex-wellguide, ex-soroka, ex-paula plumberg. built of steel in 1906 by eiderwerfs akt ges of tonning. owned at time of loss by s h bisco & e geraci. home port catavia. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 131 hp, single screw. cargo unspecified ore. cause of loss considered to be collision.

Year of registration: 1916

Water depth above wreck: 32 meter, Height above seabed: 85 cm

Known since: 1916, last detected: 20150618

Details measurements/cartography: H3950/57 29.4.57 WK LOCATED USING ASDIC IN 505136N, 005648E USING HSA. ASDIC & E/S TRACES HELD. (HMS RUSSELL, ASDIC REPORT). CHART AS NDW. BR STD. H5824/60 3.3.61 NOT FOUND. (HMS SCOTT, 1960). H1057/41 16.11.61 CONTACT IN 505133N, 005642E USING DECCA. DRIFT SWEPT CLEAR AT 64, FOUL AT 70FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 77 IN GEN DEPTH 108FT. BELIEVED TO BE A ROCK. (HMS SCOTT, 3.3.61). AMENDED TO ROCK, SWEPT TO 11FMS [19.5MTRS]. BR STD. H4959/73 25.3.75 LOCATED 31.5.74. EXAM'D IN 505130N, 005642E [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 22.8 IN GEN DEPTH 33MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 LENGTH 150FT. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 55/74). AMEND TO REVISED POSN. NE 536. H1270/75 17.11.75 AMEND TO SW 10.4FMS [19.5MTRS]. BR STD. H4121/76 2.8.76 EXAM'D 29.4.76. HMS BEAGLE'S 1974 POSN CONFIRMED USING DECCA. DEFINITELY A WK. LEAST E/S DEPTH 21.3 IN GEN DEPTH 33MTRS. DCS3 LENGTH 97MTRS. LIES 075/255DEGS. (HMS ENTERPRISE, HI 41/76). RETAIN HMS SCOTT'S SWEPT DEPTH. H4121/76 19.8.76 AMEND TO SW 10FMS 2FT [18.9MTRS] [LAT]. BR STD. 6.6.89 THIS IS NOT THE 'SALYBIA'. BELL HAS BEEN RECOVERED FROM THIS WK BUT HAS YET TO BE CLEANED TO ENABLE CORRECT IDENTIFICATION. (T HANLAN, TELECON). HH100/351/16 9.10.00 DIVED 13.9.00 IN 5051.568N, 0056.753 [OGB] USING GPS. STANDS 10MTRS HIGH BY E/S. DIVED BOW SECTION AND LOCATED BELL. BELL NOTED AS BEING MARKED '1906' BUT UNTIL FULLY CLEANED ASSUMED TO BE UNNAMED. FURTHER DIVING ON THE BRIDGE AREA AT THE STERN LOCATED BROKEN CHINA MARKED 'MILANO' AND 'LIVORNA'. ALSO A BRITISH PENNY COIN DATED 1920 WAS FOUND, THUS THIS WK COULD NOT BE 'SALYBIA' WHICH SANK IN 1916. FURTHER CLEANING OF THE BELL REVEALED 'PAULA PLUMBERG'. WK LIES WNW/ESE WITH BOWS E. LARGELY INTACT BUT WITH A VERY LARGE HOLE ALMOST CUTTING HER IN TWO AMIDSHIPS, PRESUMABLY FROM COLLISION FROM THE PORT SIDE. LARGE NET ATTACHED WHICH WHICH EXTENDS 5MTRS ABOVE WK. SEABED SAND & GRAVEL. (R A BEAUMONT, LTR DTD 29.9.00). AMEND POSN. BR STD. SEP 2015/000083464 13.2.16 EXAM'D 18.6.15; IN 5051.595N, 0056.644E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 21.63MTRS, GEN DEPTH 32MTRS. LENGTH 92MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS, HT 10MTRS, ORIENTATION 085/265. WK LARGELY INTACT, UPRIGHT, STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (HI 1475, GARDLINE GEOSURVEY). AMEND DW 21.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 50 51.595 N,0 56.644 E

 

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