This is the information page about the shipwreck Antonio (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 15.492 N,3 29.128 W (50.207816666667, -3.7034)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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.
Name: ANTONIO (PROBABLY)
Length 95.7 meter, width: 14 meter, draught: 8.8, tonnage 2652 ton
Load: animals (land & sea) and birds,foodstuffs: solid
Cause: built in 1905 by j blumer & co. owned at the time of loss by egypt & levant steamship co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 287 nhp, single shaft. machinery by j dickinson & sons ltd, sunderland. passage barry for cherbourg. mined & sunk 7m off dartmouth. torpedoed by u-48. 12 men lost. (sibi).
Year of registration: 1917
Water depth above wreck: 53 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm
Known since: 1917, last detected: 2013
Details measurements/cartography: SANK 7M OFF DARTMOUTH. (WW1SL & DODS). H2502/51 25.4.51 H2502/51 25.4.51 WK IN 501527N, 032900W. DEPTH OVER WK 22FMS. HEIGHT ABOVE SEABED 44FT. (HMS SEAGULL, 1950, SURVEY [E8881]). CHART AS WK 22FMS [40MTRS]. BR STD. H2396/77 11.3.77 H2396/77 11.3.77 WK IN 501530N, 032900W USING DECCA. EITHER 280 OR 360FT LONG, APPROX, BY SONAR, AND LYING E/W. FROM NORTH SONAR SHOWS WK APPARENTLY IN TWO PARTS. FROM SOUTH IT APPEARS SHORTER IN ONE PIECE AND COVERED IN FISHING NETS. NOT DIVED ON. (RISDON BEAZLEY, 10.2.77). NCA. H1309/79 16.10.80 H1309/79 16.10.80 DIVED ON IN VERY POOR VISIBILITY. LYING ON ITS SIDE AND BROKEN UP IN PARTS. APPARENTLY A MERCHANT SHIP AS WINCHES WERE SEEN. (A HILLGROVE, 30.9.80). NCA. H2061/82 13.9.83 H2061/82 13.9.83 EXAM'D 25.3.83 IN 501527N, 032905W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 39.6 IN GEN DEPTH 54MTRS. SCOUR 2MTRS DEEP. DCS3 HT 14.5MTRS. LIES NE/SW. GOOD SONAR CONTACT. (HMS HERALD, HI 132). AMEND TO WK 39MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 26.4.13 26.4.13 EXAM'D 19.1.13 IN 5015.492N, 0329.128W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 41.4 IN GEN DPETH 53MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP EXTENDS 300MTRS ALONG 050/23 DEGS. LENGTH 100.9MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS, HT 13.6MTRS. LIES 090/270 DEGS. ON ITS SIDE AND IN TWO PARTS. (NETSURVEY, HI 1369). AMEND WK 41.1MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: ON ITS SIDE IN TWO PARTS, SCOUR RUNS 050/230 DEGS
Position: 50 15.492 N,3 29.128 W