This is the information page about the shipwreck Bamse (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 58.758 N,5 4.497 W (49.979300, -5.074950)

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: BAMSE (PROBABLY)

Length 68.9 meter, width: 9.8 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1001 ton
Load: flammable liquids and gases

Cause: ex-thomas coates. built in 1881 by the strand slipway co, sunderland. managed at time of loss by blow richards & co for the british shipping controller. two boilers, coumpound expansion engine of 125hp, single shaft. passage swansea for dunkirk. cargo patent fuel. torpedoed by ub-112. 11 lives lost.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 71 meter, Height above seabed: 135 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK IN 495845N, 050424W OR 1.75M ESE FROM LIZARD. (WW1SL). SUNK 3M OFF BLACK HEAD. (LL WW1). 5.5.60 SONAR CONTACT IN 495842N, 050424W. (AUBD 301/67). H7312/68 11.6.74 WK LOCATED DURING CABLE SURVEY IN 495849N, 050437W [OGB] USING DECCA. STANDS 11MTRS HIGH. LENGTH 130MTRS, LYING 135/315DEGS. APPARENTLY BROKEN UP. (GPO SURVEY [K6802/2]). CHART AS WK 35.0MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/12 27.3.97 WK DIVED IN GEN DEPTH 70MTRS. SHE LIES IN 2 PARTS THE BOW BEING 100YDS SOUTH. (G J POUND, 5.3.97). NCA. HH100/351/18 & HH232/420/05 19.8.02 DIVED 15.8.02. BOW IN 4958.774N, 0504.495W; STERN IN 4958.755N, 0504.486W [WGD] USING DGPS. DISTANCE BETWEEN 2 SECTIONS IS 23MTRS, DIRECTION OF STERN TO BOW 28DEGS. ORIENTATION 135/315DEGS. HIGHEST POINT IS STERN, STANDING 11MTRS HIGH. DIFFICULT TO DISCERN DETAIL. GEN DEPTH OF SEABED AT LW 74MTRS. SEABED SHALE/FINE SAND. BRASS SHELL CASES NEAR STERN GUN & IRON TELEGRAPH. (J ROSEVEARE, TELECON 19.8.02 & 20.8.02). AMEND TO WK 60MTRS IN 4958.765N, 0504.491W.

- NM 4562/02. SEP 2014/000153151 22.9.14 EXAM'D 21.7.14 IN 4958.758N, 0504.497W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 62.82 IN GEN DEPTH 71MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 55MTRS, WIDTH 11MTRS, HT 8.18MTRS. LIES 072/252 DEGS. STONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. IN TWO PARTS, THE SMALLER LIES 90MTR SW. MAIN SECTION APPARENTLY UPRIGHT.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, SECTION LIES SW

Position: 49 58.758 N,5 4.497 W

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