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 (49.993283333333, -4.6426333333333)

 

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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. Afric
3. Alexander kennedy
4. Almond branch (possibly)
5. Andola
6. Andromeda
7. Atlantis (possibly)
8. Atlantis (possibly)
9. Bamse (probably)
10. Bay of panama
11. Beatrice (possibly)
12. Ben asdale
13. Ben rein
14. Benito
15. Bjornvik (possibly)
16. Bosphorous (possibly)
17. Bretonne (probably)
18. Cape finisterre (probably)
19. Carmarthen
20. Caroline
21. Carolus
22. Caroni river
23. Caroni river (part of)(probably)
24. Centurion (possibly)
25. Cieszyn
26. Clan apline
27. Cyrenian
28. Dionne marie
29. Dispatch (possibly)
30. Eastfield
31. Elisabeth (possibly)
32. Epsilon
33. Erato
34. Eric calvert (possibly)
35. Eskdale
36. Forde
37. Foylemore (possibly)
38. Ganymede
39. Gap
40. Godolphin
41. Gunvor
42. Happy returns (possibly)
43. Hera
44. Hmcs trentonian
45. Hmml 380
46. Hms almond (after part)
47. Hms almond (bow part)
48. Hms comet
49. Hms javelin (stern section)
50. Hms kurd
51. Hms lady of the isles
52. Hms narwhal
53. Hms primrose
54. Hms rinovia
55. Hms torrent
56. Hmy sappho (possibly)
57. Hnlms brielle
58. Jersey queen (possibly)
59. John
60. Jolie mouette
61. Julie anne ii (part of)(possibly)
62. Juno
63. Karen marie
64. Kerris reed
65. King harry (probably)
66. Kremsertor
67. Krosfond
68. Kwester
69. La suippe
70. Lady dalhousie
71. Lauwerzee
72. Leander
73. Leon martin (part of)
74. Lord snowden (probably)
75. Lucent (possibly)
76. Lydie
77. Mina cantiquin
78. Mitera marigo
79. Mohegan
80. Mountby
81. Mourne (probably)
82. N g petersen
83. Normand
84. Nyassa
85. Ocklinge
86. Omer denise
87. Orchis
88. Penelope jane (possibly)
89. Pindos
90. Plantaganet
91. Ponus
92. Port chalmers
93. Queen (possibly)
94. Rigmor (possibly)
95. Rock island bridge
96. Rosehill
97. Shoal fisher
98. Silver laurel
99. Spital
100. Spyridion vagliano
101. St andre (possibly)
102. Stanwood
103. Sunik (probably)
104. Tregenna (possibly)
105. Twilight water
106. Ub 106 (possibly)
107. Ub 112 (possibly)
108. Ub 113
109. Ub 128 (possibly)
110. Ub 86 (possibly)
111. Ub 97 (possibly)
112. Ula
113. Veritas
114. Ville de thann (bow section)(possibly)
115. Ville de thann (stern section)(possibly)
116. Violet
117. Volnay
118. War tune
119. Wilhelmina maria

 

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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