This is the information page about the shipwreck Ben rein, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 5.824 N,4 57.907 W (49.967, -5.1835166666667)

 

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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. Adams (possibly)
2. Adolf vinnen
3. Alexander kennedy
4. Almond branch (possibly)
5. Andola
6. Andromeda
7. Arab
8. Ardgarry
9. Arvor
10. Asaba (possibly)(part of)
11. Atlantis (possibly)
12. Atlantis (possibly)
13. Bamse (probably)
14. Bay of panama
15. Beatrice (possibly)
16. Bellucia
17. Ben asdale
18. Ben rein
19. Benito
20. Bjornvik (possibly)
21. Brest
22. Bretonne (probably)
23. Cape finisterre (probably)
24. Carmarthen
25. Caroline
26. Carolus
27. Caroni river
28. Caroni river (part of)(probably)
29. Centurion (possibly)
30. Cieszyn
31. Citrine
32. City of ghent
33. Clan apline
34. Clan malcolm
35. Cristina
36. Cromdale
37. Czar
38. Dionne marie
39. Dispatch (possibly)
40. Eastfield
41. Elisabeth (possibly)
42. Epsilon
43. Erato
44. Eric calvert (possibly)
45. Eskdale
46. Eva (possibly)
47. Forde
48. Friday (vrijdag) possibly
49. Ganymede
50. Gap
51. Godolphin
52. Grip (part of)
53. Gunvor
54. Hanover
55. Hansy
56. Happy returns (possibly)
57. Hera
58. Hmcs trentonian
59. Hmml 380
60. Hms almond (after part)
61. Hms almond (bow part)
62. Hms brandlebas
63. Hms comet
64. Hms gloaming
65. Hms kurd
66. Hms lady of the isles
67. Hms narwhal
68. Hms primrose
69. Hms rinovia
70. Hms roche bonne
71. Hms torrent
72. Hmy sappho (possibly)
73. Hnlms brielle
74. Ilston
75. Jersey queen (possibly)
76. John
77. Julie anne ii (part of)(possibly)
78. Juno
79. Karen marie
80. Kerris reed
81. King harry (probably)
82. Kremsertor
83. Krosfond
84. Kwester
85. La suippe
86. Lady dalhousie
87. Le vieux tigre
88. Leander
89. Leon martin (part of)
90. Lia'g
91. Libourne
92. Lord snowden (probably)
93. Lucent (possibly)
94. Lydie
95. Merle
96. Mina cantiquin
97. Mitera marigo
98. Mohegan
99. Mosel
100. Mountby
101. Mourne (probably)
102. N g petersen
103. Normand
104. Nyassa
105. Ocklinge
106. Omer denise
107. Ospra
108. Par time and tide bell
109. Pearl (possibly)
110. Penelope jane (possibly)
111. Pindos
112. Plantaganet
113. Poljames
114. Poljames
115. Ponus
116. Port chalmers
117. Prestige
118. Queen (possibly)
119. Rigmor (possibly)
120. Robert
121. Rock island bridge
122. Rosehill
123. Royal anne galley
124. Santo christo de castello (possibly)
125. Schiedam
126. Shoal fisher
127. Spital
128. Spyridion vagliano
129. Stanwood
130. Tregenna (possibly)
131. Twilight water
132. U 95
133. Ub 106 (possibly)
134. Ub 112 (possibly)
135. Ub 113
136. Ub 128 (possibly)
137. Ub 86 (possibly)
138. Ub 97 (possibly)
139. Ula
140. Veritas
141. Ville de thann (bow section)(possibly)
142. Ville de thann (stern section)(possibly)
143. Violet
144. Volnay
145. War tune
146. Wyndcliffe
147. Zebra

 

Name: BEN REIN

Length 32 meter, width: 6.4 meter, draught: 2.1, tonnage 156 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: 11.2.41 ex-tern. built in 1905 by j fullerton & co, paisley. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 27hp, single shaft. passage plymouth for falmouth. (sibi & ll ww2). hit a mine and sank off falmouth. (foic falmouth, 11.2.41).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 59 meter, Height above seabed: 105 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H0832/41 & H0423/41 22.8.41 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 500330N, 050030W APPROX. (FOIC FALMOUTH). H4239/74 15.8.74 NOTHING FOUND. (HMS HECATE 1974). H1270/80 23.11.81 CHART AS USC 50MTRS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. 5.7.85 WK LOCATED IN 500557N, 045751W [OGB] USING DECCA. (C WILLIAMS). AMEND TO WK 53MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 9.12.85 WK FOUND TO BE THAT OF A COASTER, APPROX 150 TONS, ENGINE AT STERN WITH BOW MISSING. (G.J. POUND). NCA. HH090/802/01 3.2.99 EXAM'D 30.11.98 IN 5005.824N, 0457.928W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 55.3 IN GEN DEPTH 60MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 6.0MTRS. LENGTH 35MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS. LIES 065/245 DEGS. INTACT. (HMSML GLEANER, HI 802). AMEND TO WK 55MTRS IN 5005.789N, 0457.865W [OGB]. BR STD. 12.11.01 LOCATED IN 5005.792N, 0457.851W [WGD] USING DGPS ON 10.11.01. WRECK LIES INTACT AND UPRIGHT, WITH SLIGHT LIST TO STARBOARD, SUPERSTRUCTURE STARTING TO COLLAPSE INWARDS. BRIDGE IS HIGHEST POINT WITH DEPTH 54.5MTRS BY DEPTH GAUGE REDUCED TO CHART DATUM, IN GEN DEPTH 61MTRS. LARGE THICK GREEN COD NET ON STARBOARD SIDE NEAR BRIDGE, HANGING FROM SHIPS GUNNELS, NET STANDING SOME 7-8MTRS PROUD OF THE WRECK. ORIENTATION 065/245DEGS, STERN BEARING 245DEGS, BOW MISSING. GUNNELS 4.5MTRS ABOVE SEABED. SEABED FINE SAND AND SILT. SOME CABLES, PROBABLY OFF SHIP'S MAST LIE ALONG STARBOARD SIDE OF WRECK. (J ROSEVEARE, E-MAIL DTD 10.11.01) NCA. SEP 2014/000153151 18.9.14 EXAM'D 29.6.14 IN 5005.824N, 0457.907W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 52.01 IN GEN DEPTH 59.4MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 27MTRS, WIDTH 9MTRS, HT 7.31MTRS. LIES 110/290 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. UPRIGHT, INTACT WITH AFTER SECTION PARTIALLY BURIED. (MMT, HI 1455). BOWS W. AMEND WK 52MTRS IN REVISED POSN. SEP 2014/000153151_1 5.11.14 LIES 105/285 DEGS. (BDC, HI 1455) NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT & UPRIGHT, ?BOWS NW COLLAPSED

Position: 50 5.824 N,4 57.907 W

 

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