This is the information page about the shipwreck Azemmour, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 28.934 N,1 38.423 W (50.482233, -1.640383)

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: AZEMMOUR

Length 62.5 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 897 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: ex-wistaria. built in 1909 by short bros & co, sunderland. owned at time of loss by cie generale transatlantique. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 143nhp, single shaft. passage london for nantes. torpedoed by ub-59. (ww1sl, ll & sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 37 meter, Height above seabed: 337 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: 1.4.18 REPD SUNK 12 MILES W X S FROM ST CATHERINE'S PT IN APPROX 502800N, 013000W. (AP PORTSMOUTH). NCA. H6884/52 5.1.60 WK LOCATED IN 502852N, 013822W USING DECCA. LEAST DEPTH 17FMS IN GEN DEPTH 19FMS. SCOUR 21FMS. SEABED STONES. (HMS SCOTT, 31.8.55). CHART AS WK 17FMS. BR STD. H3950/70 6.10.71 NOW CHARTED WK 30MTRS [LAT -0.4MTRS]. NC 2615. HH100/351/08 8.9.94 REPORTED TO BE 'HARTBURN' BY LOCAL DIVEBOAT SKIPPER. (J WELCH, AUG '94). HH090/962/01 5.12.02 EXAM'D 6.7.02 IN 5028.934N, 0138.424W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 32.1, FOUL 32.4MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 32.1 IN GEN DEPTH 37MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 60MTRS, WIDTH 11MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.4MTRS. LIES 163/343 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT, UPRIGHT. ?STERN BROKEN. (GARDLINE, HI 62). AMEND TO SW 32MTRS. BR STD. 28.4.05 CONFIRMED AS 'AZEMMOUR' BY RECOVERED CROCKERY. WRECK IS SEMI-BURIED. (D C WENDES, PERSONAL VISIT). NCA. SEP 2020/000123102 4.10.21 EXAM’D 29.9.20 IN 5028.934N, 0138.423W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 32.5MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 37MTRS. LENGTH 62MTRS, WIDTH 16MTRS, HT 5.5MTRS. ORIENTATION 337/157 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 30MTRS, WIDTH 30MTRS, 1.8MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 215 DEGS. DEBRIS FIELD LENGTH 10MTRS, TOWARD THE SOUTH (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI 1679). UPRIGHT, INTACT. AMEND NDW 32MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, ?STERN BROKEN

Position: 50 28.934 N,1 38.423 W

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