This is the information page about the shipwreck Barnton, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 45 34.933 N,2 5.101 W (45.695733333333, -1.9167333333333)

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: BARNTON

Length 85.3 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1858 ton
Load: ore

Cause: vessel, built 1904 by mackie & thomson, was torpedoed & sunk by a german submarine with the loss of 14 men. owned at time of loss by the barnton ss co [gillespie & nichol]. (dods). sunk while on passage from bilbao to the tyne. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 78 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: 30.8.79 SHOWN AS NDW PD IN 453500N, 020500W [EUR] ON FRENCH 6788. NE 2664. 20.5.86 SHOWN AS WK PD 50MTRS ON FRENCH 7070 [1985 EDN]. NC 2664. 29.7.93 SHOWN AS WK USC PA 60MTRS ON FRENCH 6990 [1992 EDN, 1:355000]. BR STD. SEP 2009000062843 11.8.09 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 60MTRS IN 4534.974N, 0205.085W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7070 [INT 1804] [2ND EDN 2009, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE]. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 45 34.933 N,2 5.101 W

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