This is the information page about the shipwreck Baron carnegie, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 4.21 N,5 1.16 W (52.027483333333, -4.9751833333333)

 

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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.

 

1. Atlas rose
2. Bangarth
3. Baron carnegie
4. Boscastle (possibly)
5. Dan beard (fwd part)
6. Ethel
7. Glenisla (possibly)
8. Gramsbergen
9. Hematite
10. Inspire
11. Leysian
12. Little wing
13. Mandala
14. Margaretha
15. Morning star
16. Moyallon
17. Portland (possibly)
18. Prince cadwgan (probably)
19. Rosylin
20. St george
21. Summertime
22. The queen
23. U 1302 (possibly)
24. Venture
25. Vernicos alexia
26. Vernicos barbara iv
27. Vernicos giorgis
28. Whitehaven
29. William rhodes moorhouse

 

Name: BARON CARNEGIE

Length 102.4 meter, width: 14.9 meter, draught: 6.7, tonnage 3178 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: three boilers, triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage milford haven for takoradi as part of convoy ob 334. bombed by condor aircraft. taken in tow by tug seine but sank before reaching port. of 39 crew inluding military gunners, 9 killed, 16 missing, 4 injured. (diver magazine & sibi).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 43 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H02142/41 25.7.41 NDW PA IN 520400N, 050130W [OGB]. (ADMIRALTY)

- NM 1727/41. [NO DATE] POSN APPROX. SONAR CONTACT. HEIGHT 30FT. SOME OIL. (AUBD 319/176, ESCORT GROUP 2. DEC 1944) H02142/41 12.3.45 NOW CHARTED AS NDW IN 520412N, 050110W [OGB]. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED) H2055/71 8.12.71 EXAMINED IN 520410N, 050107W [OGB] USING HI-FIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 30.4 IN 43.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH APPROX 100MTRS. LIES E/W, PROBABLY BOWS E. APPEARS TO HAVE HIGH FORECASTLE, WELL DECK AND HIGHER SUPERSTRUCTURE AFT WITH HIGHEST POINT POSSIBLY FUNNEL OR BRIDGE AT AFTER END OF WELL DECK. POSSIBLY LISTING TO PORT. GOOD SONAR RESPONSE. (HMS WOODLARK, HI 35/71). AMEND TO WK 16FMS IN 520409N, 050106W [OGB].

- NM 29/72. 29.8.72 SHOWN AS WK 29MTRS [LAT]. NC 1973. 20.5.76 REPORTED BY T BENNETT OF PEMBROKESHIRE TO WAR RISK INSURANCE (DTI) OFFICE THAT WRECK IS VIRTUALLY INTACT. FORE SECTION OF BOW HAS BROKEN AWAY. LAST 15FT OF STERN MISSING. HATCHES OPEN & HOLDS EMPTY. (DTI/WRECKS TELECON 20/5/76) H1310/84/30 5.9.84 DIVED ON 27.8.84. USING DECCA. LEAST DEPTH BY E/S 30MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 45MTRS. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. DOES NOT APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN SALVAGED. (R BUFTON, 31.8.84). 9.6.08 UPRIGHT, COLLAPSED, STERN LIES TO STBD, BOW TO PORT. (DIVER MAGAZINE, MAY '08). NCA. SEP 2021/000100708 17.12.19 WK LOCATED IN 5204.210N, 0501.160W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 34.4MTRS,IN GEN DEPTH 43MTRS, LENGTH 116MTRS, WIDTH 23.2MTRS, ORIENTATION 090/180DEGS. (KAIKU, H525, HI1592). AMEND NDW 34MTRS IN REVISED POSITION.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, COLLAPSED, STERN LIES TO STBD, BOW TO PORT

Position: 52 4.21 N,5 1.16 W

 

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