This is the information page about the shipwreck Bandon, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 56.94 N,7 34.8 W (51.867, -7.5675)

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: BANDON

Length 81.1 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1456 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1910 by swan, hunter & wigham richartson ltd, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by city of cork steam packet co. triple expansion engine of 394 nhp, single shaft. passage liverpool for cork. torpedoed by uc-44. 28 lives lost.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 33 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2010

Details measurements/cartography: 13.3.78 13.3.78 DW CHARTED IN 515800N, 073800W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NC 2049. HH100/351/12 5.2.97 HH100/351/12 5.2.97 WK OF BANDON LOCATED IN 515620N, 073400W [?OSI] USING GPS. LEAST E/S 80 FEET AT LW SPRINGS. THERE IS NO WK IN 515800N, 073800W. (M O RIORDAN, LTR DTD 25.1.97). NCA YET. HH284/450/02 18.2.97 HH284/450/02 18.2.97 POSN CONFIRMED AS 515639.5N, 073400.2W [WGD]. (M O RIORDAN, LTR DTD 12.2.97). INS AS WK 26MTRS.

- NM 1022/97. HH100/351/15 20.1.00 HH100/351/15 20.1.00 LIES IN 5156.95N, 0734.1W [WGD]. (T CAREY, FAX DTD 18.1.00). NCA. 20.10.09 SEP 2009/000148415 20.10.09 LOCATED IN 5156.9404N, 0734.791W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 29.55 IN GEN DEPTH 33MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS, HT 4MTRS. LIES 090/270 DEGS. (SEABED DATA CENTRE EXAMINATION OF GSI SURVEY CV07_02 DTD SEP-OCT 2007). AMEND WK 29.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 17.7.12 17.7.12 WK IN 5156.940N, 0734.800W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 32.7MTRS. LENGTH 81.9MTRS, WIDTH 11.5MTRS. (IRISH WKS LIST). AMEND WK 32MTRS. BR STD. 25.7.12 25.7.12 THIS IS THE ENTIRE WK AT THIS POSN. (C MCKEON, GSI, EMAIL TO RT DTD 24.7.12). NCA. 26.10.12 SEP 2012/000212979 26.10.12 LOCATED 10.2012 IN 5156.94N, 0734.80W. LENGTH 97MTRS, WIDTH 27MTRS. (GSI SURVEY CV10_03 DTD SEP-OCT 2010). NCA. 8.2.13 8.2.13 BADLY BROKEN UP. LENGTH 81.9MTRS, WIDTH 11.5MTRS, HT 5.5MTRS. LIES ALMOST E/W WITH BOWS E. (WARSHIPS, UBOATS & LINERS - INSS 2012). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: COLLAPSED, BROKEN UP Chart No: BA 2049 See Also: 74285

Position: 51 56.94 N,7 34.8 W

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