This is the information page about the shipwreck Brentwood, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 30.522 N,0 32.514 W (54.508700, -0.541900)

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: BRENTWOOD

Length 68.6 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1192 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1904 by s p austin & son, sunderland, with one boiler, triple expansion engine of 180hp, single shaft. machinery by g clarke ltd, sunderland. owned at time of loss by cory colliers ltd. passage london for north shields. in ballast. struck a mine laid by uc-43 & sunk 4m ene from whitby. 2 of 16 crew lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 48 meter, Height above seabed: 39 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20161212

Details measurements/cartography: H4069/72 3.12.75 WK LOCATED IN 543030N, 003214W USING DECCA. STANDS 25FT ABOVE SEABED. (RISDON BEAZLEY, HN DTD 13.11.75). INS AS WK 36MTRS.

- NM BLOCK. H5103/83 16.9.83 WK IN 543038N, 003218W. (KINGFISHER NO.W61, WHITBY AREA, BAYMAN'S HOLE, APRIL 1983 EDN). H5103/83 9.9.86 FASTENERS IN 543029N, 003209W AND 543108N, 003225W. POSN FROM DECCA. (KINGFISHER OBSTN BOOKLET, WHITBY AREA). H1311/88 11.10.88 WK IN 543032N, 003230W. (M FREEMAN, 30.9.88). H6331/87 26.1.89 EXAM'D 21.5.88 IN 543032N, 003223W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 39.5, FOUL 40.0MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 40.5 IN GEN DEPTH 48MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 8.0MTRS. LENGTH 80MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS. LIES 045/225DEGS. IN TWO SECTIONS. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). AMEND TO WK SW 39MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. HH100/351/09 7.6.95 SAT ON EVEN KEEL. APPROX 100 TONS. MIDSHIPS BRIDGE TO STERN INTACT. FWD OF BRIDGE TO BOW COLLAPSED AND MANGLED ON SEABED. TWO HOLDS AFT. ACCOMMODATION IN STERN AND MIDSHIPS. COMPASS BINNACLE WITH REMAINS OF COMPASS AND STEEL STEERING PEDESTAL IN SAME AREA FALLEN FWD OF BRIDGE INTO EMPTY CARGO HOLD. LARGE SHIP'S WHEEL ON BRIDGE. NO GUN ON STERN OR AUX STEERING MECHANISM. SINGLE BOILER, STEAM TRIPLE EXPANSION ENGINE. (A C JACKSON/C A RACEY). 30.8.01 EUT POSN: 5430.544N, 0032.486W. NE 134. 31.3.09 IDENTIFIED AS BRENTWOOD, BASED ON MACHINERY DETAILS, LENGTH & ARTIFACTS RECOVERED INCLUDING CORY CROCKERY. BELL INSCRIBED "SS BRENTWOOD 1904 LONDON" WAS RECOVERED IN 2007. (CARL RACEY, E-MAIL DTD 27.3.09) IDENTITY AMENDED. NCA. SEP 2017/000002822 4.5.17 EXAM'D 12.12.16 IN 5430.522N, 0032.514W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 40.84MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 48MTRS, LENGTH 71.6MTRS, WIDTH 12.8MTRS, HEIGHT 6.8MTRS, ORIENTATION 039/219 DEGS. MEDIUM SIZED WRECK IS PARTLY BROKEN UP, FRONT THIRD OF THE VESSEL HAVING ALMOST ENTIRELY COLLAPSED TO THE SEABED. THE REMAINING PARTS OF THE VESSEL SITS UPRIGHT AND INTACT TO DECK LEVEL. (MMT, HI 1491). AMEND NDW 40MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 30.522 N,0 32.514 W

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