This is the information page about the shipwreck Bur, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 16.511 N,0 18.135 W (54.2751833, -0.30225)

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: BUR

Length 82.3 meter, width: 12.5 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1806 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,timber

Cause: Torpedoed and sunk by german submarine while on passage gothenburg to london.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 27 meter, Height above seabed: 15 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20160220

Details measurements/cartography: H6596/17 INS WK IN 541645N, 001800W. - FNM 671/17. H124/19 3.1.19 NO OBSTN FOUND. (VAEC). H4069/72 20.8.74 UNKNOWN WK LOCATED IN 541623N, 001812W USING HSA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 90 IN GEN DEPTH 110 TO 115FT. CONFIRMED BY DIVER'S GAUGE. CARGO VESSEL WITH GENERAL CARGO AND TIMBER. HOLDS ARE SILTED. DAMAGE NEAR STERN. (P L SELLARS, SCARBOROUGH BSAC, 12.8.74). INS AS WK 12FMS.

- NM 1729/74. 5.12.74 AMEND TO WK 21MTRS. NC 129. H1310/82/12 28.4.82 LOCATED IN 541633N, 001805W USING RADAR. (I ROBINSON, 14.4.82). NCA. H1310/84/22 1.8.84 LOCATED AND DIVED ON. FIXED BY RADAR IN 541633N, 001807W. STANDS 6MTRS HIGH IN GEN DEPTH 30MTRS [HWS]. (P J LASSEY, 19.7.84). AMEND TO WK 18MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/06 5.3.93 WK LIES IN 541627N, 001813W. STANDS 4MTRS HIGH. (A C JACKSON, 9.2.93). NCA. HH090/730/01 18.11.97 EXAM'D 3.8.97 IN 541630.1N, 001808.0W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 19.5, FOUL 19.7MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 20.2 IN GEN DEPTH 27MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 6.0MTRS. LENGTH 76MTRS, WIDTH 14MTRS. LIES 015/195 DEGS. UPRIGHT, INTACT BUT COLLAPSED. (GARDLINE, HI 730). BR STD. SEP 2016/000007250 07.06.16 EXAM'D 20.02.16 IN 5416.511N, 0018.135W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 20.89MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 27MTRS. LENGTH 76.2MTRS, WIDTH 13.1MTRS, HT 6.5MTRS, ORIENTATION 021/201. SCOUR LENGTH 40.6MTRS, 1.2MTRS DEEP TOWARDS 152 DEGS. INTACT AROUND BOW, STERN COLLAPSED AND PARTIALLY BURRIED. (EGS, HI 1472) AMEND DW 20.8MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Mainly intact around bow, stern collapsed and buried.

Position: 54 16.511 N,0 18.135 W

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