This is the information page about the shipwreck Benvorlich (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 26.949 N,5 53.097 W (48.675833333333, -6.1583)

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: BENVORLICH (POSSIBLY)

Length 108.8 meter, width: 13.2 meter, tonnage 3381 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built 1896 by stephen & sons ltd (alexander stephen), dundee, with triple expansion engine. owned at time of loss by by ben line steamers ltd, leith. passage manila for london. torpedeod & sunk by german submarine u 28 30m w of ushant. (ll ww1, ww1sl, naval staff monographs vol.14, wrecksite.eu)

Year of registration: 1915

Water depth above wreck: 112 meter

Known since: 1915, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: 6.5.69 NDW IN 482700N, 055300W [EUR] USING DECCA. (MANIERES BOOK, P.218). NCA. 1.4.76 SHOWN AS WK 108MTRS [59FMS] IN 482703N, 055315W [EUR] ON FRENCH 4735 [4TH EDN]. BR STD. 16.1.78 SHOWN AS NDW (108) ON FRENCH 6680 [INT 1708]. ALSO LISTED IN FRENCH WRECK RECORDS. H1270/75 16.10.78 INS AS WK 59FMS.

- NM 2547/78. 16.7.86 SHOWN AS WK PA 108MTRS IN 482700N, 055300W [EUR] ON FRENCH 6989 [1986 EDN]. ALSO LISTED IN FRENCH WK RECORDS 1984. NC 2643. 23.2.88 SHOWN AS WK PD 108MTRS ON FRENCH 7067 [1987 EDN]. ALSO LISTED IN FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14585099. NC 2644. 17.2.89 SHOWN AS WK PA 108MTRS IN 482700N, 055300W [EUR] ON NC 2644 [1989 EDN]. SEP 2007/000004861 27.2.07 WK 108MTRS PD SHOWN ON FRENCH 7066 [3RD EDN 2006]. AMEND TO PD. BR STD. 4.3.09 SHOWN IN 4826.940N, 0553.090W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6680 [3RD EDN 2003, CORRECT TO NM 42 29 08, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NC 2647. SEP 2009000084718 11.12.09 SHOWN IN 4826.949N, 0553.097W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7066 [INT 1800] [3RD EDN 2006 CORRECT TO 25-37-09, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE]. BR STD. 28.7.10 POSSIBLY SS BENVORLICH AS SINKING POSN GIVEN 30M W OF USHANT. (WW1SL) SINKING POSN ALSO GIVEN AS 50M SW OF USHANT. (WW1SL & WRECKSITE.EU)
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 48 26.949 N,5 53.097 W

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