This is the information page about the shipwreck Asborg, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 31.846 N,1 15.791 W (50.530767, -1.263183)

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: ASBORG

Length 97.8 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 6.7, tonnage 2750 ton
Load: metal: concentrate and products,coal

Cause: built in 1896 by short bros ltd, sunderland. 0wned at time of loss by akties thr. b heinstein. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 252nhp, single shaft. passage the tyne for leghorn. torpedoed & sunk by uc 75. (dods, der krieg zur see & sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 27 meter, Height above seabed: 67 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20161114

Details measurements/cartography: SANK 3M SE HALF E OF ST CATHERINES PT. (LLOYDS WAR LOSSES). H108/18 14.1.18 WK OF STEAMER, MASTS SHOWING ABOVE WATER APPROX 3.75M S OF ST CATHERINE'S PT. IN 503110N, 011520W. (HYDRO). INS AS WK [OLD SYMBOL].

- NM 76/18. H3287/24 12.5.24 NOW CHARTED AS DW. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H4607/28 30.7.28 SURVEY CARRIED OUT IN VICINITY CHARTED POSN. NOTHING FOUND. (TH, 27.7.28). DELETE. H1098/37 8.3.37 NOW CHARTED AS NDW. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). F016. H03504/51 8.8.51 OLD WRECK LOCATED IN 503148N, 011536W. (C-IN-C PORTSMOUTH, 8.8.51). H6667/57 28.4.71 NOTHING FOUND USING SONAR. (HMS SHACKLETON SURVEY DTD 1057 [K2007/2]). 28.3.72 NOW CHARTED AS WK USC 15MTRS. (TONNAGE KNOWN). NC 2045. H2555/74 22.3.74 NOTHING SHOWN ON SONAR PLOT. (SCES, SURVEY [K6874/2]). DELETE. NC 2045. H1288/75 10.10.75 WK LOCATED IN 503130N, 011554W [OGB] USING DECCA. DESCRIBED AS WK OF COASTER LYING E/W AND UPRIGHT. MAX HT 25FT ABOVE SEABED. THOUGHT TO BE WK OF THE 'ASBORG'. (R J TODD, 7.9.75). INS AS WK USC 20MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/03 31.8.90 DIVED ON IN 503151.5N, 011547.5W IN POOR U/W VIS. AN OLD WK, PROBABLY WW1. (D C FOX). NCA YET. HH100/351/08 16.2.94 REFERRED TO AS 'ASBOURG 2'. (J WELCH, WK LIST). NCA. 31.12.97 REPORTED TO LIE 250-300MTRS FROM CHARTED POSN. (S COLLETT, BOAT SHOW QUERY). NCA. HH090/962/01 4.12.02 EXAM'D 12.8.02 IN 5031.846N, 0115.795W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 18.8, FOUL 19.1MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 19.0 IN GEN DEPTH 26MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 115MTRS, WIDTH 25MTRS. DCS3 HT 7MTRS. LIES 074/254DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. DEBRIS CLOSE TO THE NE END OF WK. HULL BROKEN. (GARDLINE, HI 962). GENERALLY INTACT, COLLAPSED. AMEND TO WK SW 18.8MTRS. BR STD. 28.4.05 THIS IS CONFIRMED AS 'ASBORG'. ONE BIG BOILER AND CARGO OF STEEL PLATES IS VISIBLE. (D C WENDES, PERSONAL VISIT). NCA. 2.2.07 LIES IN ABOUT 28MTRS. UPRIGHT WITH PARTS OF THE STERN STILL STANDING. FWD OF THE LARGE, SINGLE BOILER THE WK IS FLATTENED, BUT MUCH OF THE CARGO OF STEEL LIES ON THE SEABED. BOILER AND ENGINE ARE THE HIGHEST PART OF THE WK. NOT PROVED TO BE ASBORG BUT CARGO, LAYOUT AND POSITION FITS. (D C WENDES, SOUTH COAST SHIPWRECKS). NCA. SEP 2016/000165703 14.11.17 EXAM'D 14.11.16 IN 5031.846N, 0115.791W [WGD]. LEAST WCD 18.85MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 27MTRS. LENGTH 103MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS, HT 8.2MTRS, ORIENTATION 067/247 DEGS. THE WK IS WELL DEGRADED BUT THE REMAINS SIT UPRIGHT. THE BOW SECTION IS NEARLY ENTIRELY FLATTENED BUT A BOILER, TRIPLE EXPANSION ENGINE, PROPELLOR SHAFT AND PARTS OF THE STERN ARE IDENTIFIABLE AMONGST THE REMAINS. (MMT, HI 1499). AMEND TO DW 18.8MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL DEGRADED, SITS UPRIGHT

Position: 50 31.846 N,1 15.791 W

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