This is the information page about the shipwreck Burnhope (part of), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 40.962 N,1 9.061 W (54.682700, -1.151017)

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: BURNHOPE (PART OF)

Length 82.9 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1941 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1907 by wood, skinner & co ltd, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by burnett ss co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 200hp, single shaft. passage hartlepool for london. mined. crew recovered, but master died of heart attack after being rescued. (llww1 & sibi).

Year of registration: 1916

Water depth above wreck: 11 meter, Height above seabed: 140 cm

Known since: 1916, last detected: 20180111

Details measurements/cartography: H7798/16 WK, AWASH AT LW, 5.5C E OF LONG SCAR BELL BUOY. (ADMIRALTY). - FNM 588/16. 16.3.25 NOW CHARTED AS DW. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). LC 2567. H3752/26 11.6.26 NOW CHARTED AS NDW. (ADMIRALTY).

- NM 1319/26. H6100/28 17.9.29 WRECKAGE DISCOVERED, DISPERSED TO 6FMS. PARTS EMBEDDED IN SAND. BELOW 6FMS THE SAND HAS BEEN SCOURED AWAY AROUND ABOUT THE WRECKAGE TO VARYING DEPTHS BELOW 6FMS SO THAT SOME OF THE WRECKAGE STANDS UP ABOVE SAND LEVEL BUT BELOW 6FMS. POSN 544057N, 010851W. (PORT OF HARBOUR COMMISSION, HARTLEPOOL, 17.8.29).

- NM 1116/29. H2669/31 20.4.31 SWEPT TO LEAST DEPTH 34FT [10.2MTRS]. (HMS FITZROY, 14.4.31 [E3390]). NE 2567. H2534/74 5.11.81 POSN CONFIRMED USING HIFIX. (HMS IVESTON, HN DTD 22.10.81). H3768/83 6.11.84 SHOWN TO BE IN POSN 133DEGS, 2238MTRS FROM HEUGH LTHO ON TEES & HARTLEPOOL PA SURVEY [K 9124/1 (2)]. PLOTS IN 544058N, 010857W [OGB]. BR STD. 15.3.19 3 UPRIGHT CIRCULAR SHAPED VESSELS BURIED IN SAND, WRECKAGE VISIBLE 3MTRS DIAMETER BY 1MTR HIGH. IN A LINE SPACED APPROX 4MTRS APART, NO OTHER WRECKAGE FOUND. (DAVE APTTERSON, DIVED 2018). - NFA. SEP 2018/000017129 30.5.18 EXAM'D 11.01.18; WK LOCATED IN 5440.962N, 0109.061W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 10.41MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 11MTRS. LENGTH 40.5MTRS, WIDTH 13MTRS, HEIGHT 1.7MTRS, ORIENTATION 140/320 DEGS. WK WELL DISPERSED. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY, HI 1543). AMEND DW 10.4MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: SEE [66524]

Position: 54 40.962 N,1 9.061 W

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