This is the information page about the shipwreck Armenian, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 45.448 N,6 3.158 W (50.866066666667, -5.7962666666667)

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.

Name: ARMENIAN

Length 156.2 meter, width: 18 meter, draught: 10.7, tonnage 8825 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,animals (land & sea) and birds

Cause: built in 1895 by harland & wolffe, belfast. owned at time of loss by leyand line. six boiler, quadruple expansion engines of 718hp, ?twin shaft. passage newport news, usa for avonmouth. cargo 3000 mules. sighted u-38 and altered course to bring the enemy astern. soon overhauled by the submarine and shelled. suffered damage, engine stopped and abandoned to boats. struck by two torpedoes and sank. 29 men lost.

Year of registration: 1944

Water depth above wreck: 91 meter, Height above seabed: 80 cm

Known since: 1944, last detected: 2010

Details measurements/cartography: SONAR CONTACT IN 504500N, 060400W. (AUBD 1123/21). H4202/44 16.11.44 INSERT AS NDW IN 504536N, 060312W.

- NM 2545/44. H2979/74 9.9.77 WK REPORTED IN 504535N, 060318W [OGB] USING DECCA. ALSO TWO FFS REPORTED IN POSNS 504603N, 060303W AND 504602N, 060335W USING DECCA. (E GILES-16.5.77). H2979/74 17.10.77 FF REPORTED IN 504527N, 060303W [OGB] USING DECCA. (E GILES, 29.4.77). H3814/78 6.7.79 REPORTED BY FISHERMAN AS LARGE WK, 42FT HIGH. (E GILES 2.7.79). INS AS WK 74MTRS. BR STD. H1932/79 18.2.81 LARGE WK EXAMINED 23.11.80 IN 504525N, 060306W [OGB]. USING HF [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 78 IN GEN DEPTH 91MTRS. DCS3 HT 10MTRS, LENGTH 150MTRS. APPARENTLY INTACT, LYING 080/260DEGS ON FLAT SAND. MAGNETIC ANOMALY 418NT. (HMS FAWN HI 56A/79-80). AMEND WK 78MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 22.7.08 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. CONFIRMED AS SS ARMENIAN BY RECOVERED CROCKERY WITH WHITE STAR LINE MARKINGS. INTACT, UPRIGHT WITH DECKS MAINLY COLLAPSED INTO HOLDS. HOLDS EMPTY BUT FEW BONES RECOVERED WHICH ARE BEING ANALYSED. CINC REQUESTED. (I MCCARTNEY, TELECON 22.7.08). NCA. 21.5.09 EUT POSN: 5045.448N, 0603158W. NE 1178. 16.8.10 BELL RECOVERED ENGRAVED "ARMENIAN LIVERPOOL". WK UPRIGHT & INTACT. (DIVER MAGAZINE SEP '10) 5.4.17 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, DEFENCE NO 147/2017. COMING INTO FORCE 3.3.17. AMEND "HISTORIC".
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, DECKS COLLAPSED INTO HOLDS

Position: 50 45.448 N,6 3.158 W

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