Wreck: Brestois (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Brestois, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 27.45 N,1 31.051 W (50.457500, -1.517517)
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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.
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Shipwreck details
Name: BRESTOIS
Length 45.7 meter, width: 6.7 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 348 ton
Load: ballast
Cause: built in 1897 of iron. owned at time of loss by cheviolette freres. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 44 nhp, single shaft. passage cherbourg for cardiff. foundered following collision with ss penmount of falmouth. (sibi).
Year of registration: 2002
Water depth above wreck: 37 meter, Height above seabed: 75 cm
Known since: 2002, last detected: 2020
Details measurements/cartography: HH090/962/01 17.12.02 EXAM'D 13.7.02 IN 5027.448N, 0131.079W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 33.5, FOUL 33.9MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 32.8 IN GEN DEPTH 37MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 59MTRS, WIDTH 16MTRS. DCS3 HT 3.8MTRS. LIES 080/260 DEGS. POOR MAGNETIC ANOMALY. PARTIALLY INTACT WK. (GARDLINE, HI 962). INS AS SW 33MTRS. BR STD. 28.4.05 THIS IS THE BRESTIOS. IDENTIFIED BY THE TELEGRAPH AND FRENCH AMMUNITION. PARTIALY BURIED IN SANDWAVE AREA ON HARD CHALK SEABED. (D C WENDES, PERSONAL VISIT). NCA. SEP 2020/000123102 13.10.21 EXAM’D 29.9.20 IN 5027.451N, 0131.051W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 33.76TRS IN GEN DEPTH 37MTRS. LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 6.5MTRS, HT 3.5MTRS. ORIENTATION 075/255 DEGS. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI 1586). AMEND NDW 33MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: PARTIALLY BURIED
Position: 50 27.45 N,1 31.051 W
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