This is the information page about the shipwreck Bonvilston, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 4.318 N,5 21.27 W (55.27305, -5.5877166666667)

 

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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. Agba
2. Alamance (probably)
3. Ardglass
4. Argyle (possibly)
5. Austria
6. Azure
7. Baron glamis (probably)
8. Bonvilston
9. Boy john r
10. Buffalo (possibly)
11. Byron darnton
12. Carrick
13. Chindwin
14. Craigantlet
15. Davaar
16. Dettifoss
17. Dove of oban
18. Empire adventure
19. Empress of japan (possibly)
20. Ethel crawford
21. Haileybury
22. Harvest hope (possibly)
23. Hms adept (possibly)
24. Karen
25. Lairdscastle (probably)
26. Lakemoor
27. Liverpool
28. Longwy
29. Lupina
30. M.j.craig (probably)
31. Middleton (probably)
32. Nyanza (possibly)
33. Perelle (possibly)
34. Perilia
35. Prestige
36. Princess victoria
37. Quesada (possibly)
38. Quesada (possibly)
39. Rowan
40. Sandhurst
41. Setter (possibly)
42. Solway queen (possibly)
43. St conan
44. Strathmore
45. Tiberia
46. U 776
47. Ub 82 (possibly)
48. Ub 85
49. Ub-85 / ub-82?
50. Vera louise
51. William castle
52. Wilmere (probably)

 

Name: BONVILSTON

Length 96.3 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 2866 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1893 by palmers shipbuilders, newcastle. owned at time of loss by evan thomas, radcliffe & co, cardiff. passage ayr for barry roads. torpedoed and sunk by german submarine ub 92. sank in 20 mins. (wrecksite.eu)

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 61 meter, Height above seabed: 182 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: 23.10.18 POSN 8M NNW OF CORSEWELL PT. (AP REPORT M015823). PLOTS IN 550200N, 052100W. H8302/19 SUNK 9.5M NW BY N FROM CORSEWELL PT. (BMVS). PLOTS IN 550300N, 052530W. 7.11.18 NOW IN 9.5M NW BY 0.25N FROM CORSEWELL PT. ACCEPTED POSN 550300N, 052530W PA. H0109/45 ASDIC CONTACT, LENGTH 110FT, HEIGHT 38FT IN 550412N, 052106W. LIES 150/230 DEG. (WESTERN APPROACHES LIST, WAGO 524. DOMETT) 17.1.45 GOOD CONTACT OBTAINED IN 550412N, 052106W. CLASSIFIED AS ROCK. (AUBD 318/61). 18.8.53 INS NDW IN 550412N, 052106W. NC F6629. H3671/72 20.7.72 UNDOUBTED WK LOCATED IN 550422N, 052113W [OGB] USING HIFIX/3. LEAST E/S DEPTH 49.8 IN GEN DEPTH 61MTRS. (HMS FOX, HN 12/72). INS AS WK 27FMS. NE 2199. H3671/72 12.9.72 EXAM'D 18.5.72 USING HIFIX 3 AND DECCA [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 49.8MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 2MTRS. LENGTH 320FT APROX. LIES 170/350 DEGS. THOUGHT TO BE TOO BIG TO BE WK OF BUFFALO. (HMS FOX, HI 51/72). INS AS WK 49MTRS. NC 2199. H3671/72 7.12.76 INS ON F6735

- NM 73/77. H5982/82 8.11.82 WK IN 550420N, 052129W [OGB]. POSN BY DECCA. (KINGFISHER TRAWLING PLOT- A-PLOT 7, 1982). NCA. HH100/351/13 24.11.97 CONFIRMED AS 'BONVILSTON'. (P C MILLER, FAX DTD 16.11.97). HH278/400/02 5.5.99 LOCATED IN 5504.382N, 0521.346W [WGD] USING DGPS. (HMS MIDDLETON, 9.1997). AMEND POSN. BR STD. SEP 2021/000322449 22.12.21 EXAM’D 15.5.21 IN 5504.318N, 0521.270W [WGD]. LEAST WCD DEPTH 45.83TRS IN GEN DEPTH 61MTRS. LENGTH 116.3MTRS, WIDTH 15.3MTRS, HT 13.6MTRS. ORIENTATION 182/002 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 26.9MTRS, WIDTH 25.9MTRS, 2MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 209 DEGS. (A-2-SEA SOLUTIONS LTD, HI 1718). INTACT, UPRIGHT. AMEND NDW 45MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, PROBABLY UPRIGHT. UK NM 99/22.

Position: 55 4.318 N,5 21.27 W

 

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