This is the information page about the shipwreck Benito, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 59.858 N,4 50.321 W (49.997633, -4.838683)

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: BENITO

Length 118.9 meter, width: 15.9 meter, draught: 8.1, tonnage 4712 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,coal,coke,personnel

Cause: ex-falls of nith. built in 1907 by scott's sb & e co, greenock. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 471hp, single shaft. one x 4 inch gun. passage hull for gibraltar. torpedoed by ub-57. (ll ww1 & sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 75 meter, Height above seabed: 125 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2004

Details measurements/cartography: H1309/75 6.7.76 WRECK REPD IN 500041N, 045020W [OGB] USING DECCA. (CHIEF CAKEBREAD, RNAS CULDROSE). CHART AS NDW. BR STD. 5.7.85 WK, STANDING 7FMS ABOVE SEABED, LOCATED IN 500000N, 045015W [OGB] USING DECCA. (C WILLIAMS, RECORDED TAPE). CHART AS WK 60MTRS IN MEAN POSN: 500020N, 045018W [OGB]. BR STD. HH100/351/15 27.10.99 DIVED IN 4959.865N, 0450.320W [WGD] USING DGPS. STANDS 10MTRS HIGH. WW1 SS WITH MID ENGINE. STEAM WHISTLE FOUND. LARGE GUN PRESENT ON THE STERN. SEABED STONE. (G POUND). CONSIDERED TO BE THIS WK. AMEND POSN. BR STD. HH100/351/20 4.8.03 STANDS 9MTRS HIGH BY DIVE COMPUTER. NO SCOUR. SEABED SAND & MUD. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. UPRIGHT ALTHOUGH COLLAPSED, LEAVING CONFUSING SUPERSTRUCTURE AND HULL ACROSS BOILERS AND ENGINE. AT LEAST TWO LARGE BOILERS ARE EXPOSED AT ONE END, THEN THE WK PETERS WHERE THE BRIDGE WOULD HAVE BEEN AND IS WELL COLLAPSED FROM HERE ONWARD. IDENTIFIED AS THE BENITO BY RECOVERY OF SHIPPING LINE CHINA BY A DUNSTER IN 6.2003. (L BISHOP). NCA. HH091/059/01 4.4.05 EXAM'D 26.9.04 IN 4959.858N, 0450.312W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 68.2 IN GEN DEPTH 75.1MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 122MTRS, WIDTH 28MTRS, HT 6.9MTRS. LIES 127/307 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT, DEGRADED. (GARDLINE, HI 1059). ?BOWS NW, COLLAPSED IN FRONT OF MIDSHIPS SUPERSTRUCTURE. AMEND WK 68MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. SEP 2014/000153151 22.9.14 EXAM'D 21.7.14 IN 4959.858N, 0450.321W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 65.94 IN GEN DEPTH 75MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 125MTRS, WIDTH 27MTRS, HT 9.06MTRS. LIES 125/305 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT, AFTER SECTION COLLAPSED. (MMT, HI 1455). AMEND WK 65MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, COLLAPSED

Position: 49 59.858 N,4 50.321 W

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