This is the information page about the shipwreck Birtley, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 15.647 N,0 1.466 W (54.2607833, -0.0244333)

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: BIRTLEY

Length 74.8 meter, width: 11.2 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1438 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Built in 1906 by wood, skinner & co of newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by the burnett ss co ltd. single boiler, triple expansion engine of 167 hp, single shaft. machinery midships by the ne marine engineering co, newcastle-upon-tyne. passage dunkirk for blyth. in ballast. was torpedoed and sunk by ub 38. eighteen lost.

Year of registration: 1975

Water depth above wreck: 52 meter, Height above seabed: 77 cm

Known since: 1975, last detected: 20160218

Details measurements/cartography: H2534/74 9.4.75 WK IN 541524N, 000112W. (KINGFISHER OBSTN REPORT NO 106). INS AS USC 20MTRS. BR STD. H2534/74 16.12.79 BAD OBSTN (WK) IN 541522N, 000131W. POSN BY DECCA. (KINGFISHER BOOK OF TOWS VOL 1). NCA. 16.1.80 INS AS NDW IN 541522N, 000113W. BR STD. HH090/730/01 15.12.97 EXAM'D 13.6.97 IN 541539.1N, 000125.7W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 47 IN GEN DEPTH 52MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 6.5MTRS. LENGTH 88MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS. LIES 065/245 DEGS. BADLY DECOMPOSED WITH MINOR DEBRIS (<0.4MTR) TO THE E AND W. SAND ENCROACHMENT OVER THE MAJORITY OF THE WK. (GARDLINE, HI 730). BR STD. HH100/351/17 25.4.01 DIVED IN 1999. THIS IS THE BIRTLEY. IDENTIFIED BY THE MAKER'S PLATE LOCATED IN FRONT OF THE BOILER. SITS ON AN EVEN KEEL. BOW INTACT FROM FORECASTLE FWD AND SHROUDED IN TRAWL NETS. COLLAPSED FROM BOW TO BRIDGE. TRIPLE EXPANSION ENGINE IS UPRIGHT. STERN NOT DIVED. (A C JACKSON/C A RACEY). NCA. 21.1.09 EXAM'D 2008 BY SUBMERSIBLE. LEAST 71MTRS LENGTH, WIDTH 17MTRS, HT 3MTRS. (OCEAN TECH FOUNDATION, SEARCH FOR BON RICHARD). NCA. SEP 2016/000007250 07.06.16 EXAM'D 18.02.16 IN 5415.647N, 0001.466W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 40.5MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 52MTRS. LENGTH 74.3MTRS, WIDTH 19MTRS, HT 11.6MTRS, ORIENTATION 077/257. SCOUR LENGTH 24.2MTRS, 0.3MTRS DEEP TOWARDS 077. WK PARTIALLY INTACT, DEGRADED SEVERAL PIECES. (EGS, HI 1472). AMEND NDW 40MTRS. IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Partially intact, only centre structure remaining

Position: 54 15.647 N,0 1.466 W

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