This is the information page about the shipwreck Bornu, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 27.145 N,5 45.888 W (48.401766666667, -5.5320333333333)

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: BORNU

Length 107.9 meter, width: 12.8 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 3529 ton

Cause: built 1899 by vickers sons & maxim, owned by british & african s n co at the time of loss. foundered 25m w of ushant whilst on passage rotterdam for the w coast of africa. (dods).

Year of registration: 1980

Water depth above wreck: 113 meter

Known since: 1980, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: H1271/80 9.6.80 SHOWN AS NDW IN 482710N, 054550W [EUR] ON FRENCH 6680 [1980 EDN]. BR STD. 16.7.86 SHOWN AS WK USC PA 90MTRS IN 482712N, 054548W [EUR] ON FRENCH 6989 [1986 EDN]. ALSO LISTED IN FRENCH WK RECORDS 1985. NC 2643. 23.2.88 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 90MTRS ON FRENCH 7067 [1987 EDN] & FRENCH 6680 [1986 EDN]. ALSO LISTED IN FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14585128. NC 2644. 17.2.89 SHOWN AS WK USC PA 90MTRS IN 482712N, 054548W [EUR] ON NC 2644 [1989 EDN]. SEP 2007/000004861 26.2.07 WK USC PD 90MTRS SHOWN ON FRENCH 7066 [3RD EDN 2006]. AMEND TO PD. BR STD. 4.3.09 SHOWN IN 4827.140N, 0545.890W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6680 [3RD EDN 2003, CORRECT TO NM 42 29 08, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NC 2647. SEP 2009/000084718 10.12.09 SHOWN IN 4827.145N, 0545.888W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7066 [INT 1800] [3RD EDN 2006 CORRECT TO 25-37-09, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE]. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 48 27.145 N,5 45.888 W

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