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 (50.097067, -4.965117)

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: 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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