This is the information page about the shipwreck Anna sophie, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 31.963 N,5 6.496 W (50.505016666667, -5.2049666666667)

 

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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. Acadian
2. Angele (possibly)
3. Anna sophie
4. Antoinette (probably)
5. Arthurtown
6. Bard (possibly)
7. Bogstad
8. Brava
9. Brisk (probably)
10. Camelot challenger (possibly)
11. Carasa (possibly)
12. Carl
13. Castor 1
14. Cristina
15. Deputie gaston dumesnil (possibly)
16. Dumfries
17. Ezra weston (bow section)
18. Ezra weston (stern section)
19. Genevieve (possibly)
20. Germaine
21. Gregynog
22. Hanover
23. Hemsley 1
24. Hmcs regina
25. Hugin
26. Humbergate (probably)
27. Hunsgrove
28. Island maid
29. John taylor
30. Kai (possibly)
31. Kwester
32. La suippe
33. Lake edon
34. Lake owens
35. Lia'g
36. Lisa maria
37. Lombard (possibly)
38. Madeline
39. Madryn
40. Marguerite pry
41. Maria asumpta
42. Mefjord (possibly)
43. Milly (possibly)
44. Norma (possibly)
45. Onega
46. Orfordness
47. Pearn pride (possibly)
48. Peer gynt (possibly)
49. Petersham
50. Portugal
51. Prestige
52. Princess royal
53. Quarnero
54. Risoy (probably)
55. Rossmore (possibly)
56. Runswick
57. Saphir
58. Secil japan (bow section)
59. Secil japan (stern section)
60. Shanes castle
61. Shoreham (probably)
62. Siracusa
63. Skopelos sky (after part)
64. Sphene (probably)
65. St george (possibly)
66. St joseph
67. St stanislas
68. Svint
69. Tagona
70. U 1021 (possibly)
71. U 325 (possibly)
72. U 400 (possibly)
73. Ub 65
74. Vesuvius
75. War baron (probably)
76. Warnow (possibly)

 

Name: ANNA SOPHIE

Length 97.5 meter, width: 13.4 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 2577 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: ex-theologos, ex-s anargyros, ex-vera. built in 1896 by ropner & sons, stockton-on-tees. owned at time of loss by w m france (fenwick & co, managers). two boilers, triple expansion engine of 245 nhp, single shaft. machinery by blair & co, stockton. passage rouen for barry roads. torpedoed by u-55. one man lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1978

Water depth above wreck: 33 meter, Height above seabed: 95 cm

Known since: 1978, last detected: 2012

Details measurements/cartography: 29.7.18 29.7.18 SANK 4M W OF TREVOSE HD. (BOT WR 5/58). 29.11.78 29.11.78 WK LOCATED IN 503226N, 050624W [OGB] USING DECCA. ABOUT 3500 GROSS TONS. (R DAVIS, TELECON). INS AS USC 18MTRS. BR STD. H1310/8738 20.10.87 H1310/8738 20.10.87 DIVED THIS AREA ON TWO OCCASIONS. NOTHING LOCATED ON AN OPEN, LOW SHELVING, ROCKY SEABED. (P CORNISH). NCA. 21.4.11 21.4.11 THIS IS ANNA SOPHIE. HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE ENGINE. (S HUTCHINSON, LTD DTD 19.4.11). NCA. 23.11.11 23.11.11 LOCATED IN 5031.963N, 0506.496W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 29.43 IN GEN DEPTH 33.9MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 35.0MTRS, WIDTH 10.0MTRS, HT 4.52MTRS. LIES 095/275 DEGS WITH BOWS E. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). ?IN TWO PARTS WITH SMALLER PART CLOSE NE. AMEND WK 29MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 18.6.12 18.6.12 MAINLY INTACT WITH BOW CLOSE BY. ON PORT SIDE AND COLLAPSED. THIS WK STATED TO BE POLDOWN. (DIVER MAGAZINE, 7.2012). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ?IN TWO PARTS WITH SMALLER CLOSE NW, BOWS E

Position: 50 31.963 N,5 6.496 W

 

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