This is the information page about the shipwreck Cantabria (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 1.22 N,1 36.033 E (52.7959833, 1.6965)

 

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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.

 

1. Aberhill
2. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Algarve
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Angele-erika
9. Aquarius (possibly)
10. Artemisia
11. Asteria
12. Barrhill
13. Bertha
14. Boulderpool (fwd part)
15. British triumph
16. Camilla weston
17. Cantabria (probably)
18. Cardanel
19. Chevington
20. Clan morrison
21. Clansman (possibly)
22. Continental (possibly)
23. Corchester
24. Cordene
25. Corduff
26. Courier (probably)
27. Dashwood
28. Duncarron
29. Efos
30. Eikhaug
31. Ems
32. English trader
33. Ethel
34. Friesland
35. Fulgens
36. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
37. Gardenia
38. Georgia (for'd part)
39. Georgia (stern section)
40. Glen derry (probably)
41. Granta
42. Hauxley (possibly)
43. Hector gannet
44. Hms agate
45. Hms caroline moller
46. Hms cloughton wyke
47. Hms dhoon (probably)
48. Hms dungeness
49. Hms force
50. Hms francolin
51. Hms tranio
52. Hms vortigern
53. Hms william stephen
54. Hmsm c 11
55. Homefire
56. I t l anna b
57. Ilse
58. Jessie maersk
59. Jevington court
60. Kenton
61. Keymun
62. King egbert
63. La perouse (possibly)
64. Lanterna (probably)
65. Leelite
66. Londoner (probably)
67. Marden
68. Marsworth
69. Minorca
70. Montferland
71. Norman queen
72. Oakgrove
73. Ole bull
74. Osprey
75. Otter
76. Oxshott (possibly)
77. Pacific (possibly)
78. Pacific (possibly)
79. Pegrix
80. Rimac
81. Robrix
82. Roine
83. Rose marie
84. Roy
85. Salvus ii
86. Seagull
87. Seaham
88. Sheaf water
89. St mark
90. St thomas (possibly)
91. Teddington
92. Thursonian
93. Traviata (possibly)
94. Trelissick
95. Tyneford
96. Upminster
97. Varoy
98. Walkure
99. Welholme (possibly)
100. Western mist (possibly)
101. Westland
102. Whintown (possibly)
103. Willowpool
104. Winhill or whinhill
105. Xanthe

 

Name: CANTABRIA (PROBABLY)

Length 125.3 meter, width: 16.5 meter, draught: 8.2, tonnage 5649 ton

Cause: Built in 1919 by j coughlan & sons. owned at time of loss by a f perez. triple expansion engine of 532nhp. sunk by gunfire from spanish insurgent warship nadir about 8 miles ne of cromer during spanish civil war.

Year of registration: 1938

Water depth above wreck: 29 meter, Height above seabed: 100 cm

Known since: 1938, last detected: 20190219

Details measurements/cartography: H7236/38 19.11.38 SUNK IN 530110N, 013025E. (CG CROMER; TH NM 51/38). H7236/38 12.12.38 TO BE DISPERSED USING EXPLOSIVES. (TH). H7236/38 24.2.39 INS WK 7.5FMS IN 530110N, 013025E. (TH). H953/40 20.2.40 NOT FOUND USING A/S. (HMS FRANKLIN). H953/40 20.2.41 DELETE.

- NM 350/41. H939/40 20.2.41 INS NDW (PA) IN 500330N, 013530E.

- NM 350/41. H8398/47 10.11.48 WK IN 530113N, 013606E. CLEAR AT 45FT BY OROPESA SWEEP. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 21.10.48). AMEND POSN.

- NM ACTION. 11.5.72 AMEND TO USC 15MTRS. NC 106. 29.8.74 AMEND TO USC 13.7MTRS. NC 106. 29.11.77 AMEND TO SW 13.7MTRS. NE 106. HH090/524/01 6.1.92 EXAM'D 14.7.91 IN 530110.9N, 013604E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 23.8, FOUL AT 24MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 23.5 IN GEN DEPTH 29.7MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 6.5MTRS, LENGTH 130MTRS, WIDTH 50MTRS. LIES 100/280 DEG. (LAND & MARINE, HI 531). AMEND TO SW 23.5MTRS.

- NM 387/92. SEP 2020/000100123 13.5.20 EXAM'D 19.02.19; IN 5301.219N, 0136.033E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 24.71MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 29MTRS, LENGTH 77.8MTRS, WIDTH 29.4MTRS, HEIGHT 5MTRS, ORIENTATION 100/280 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 130MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS, 0.2MTRS DEEP, TOWARDS 120 DEGS. (MERITAITO, HI 1580). WRECK IS UPRIGHT, BUT PARTS OF HULL COLLAPSED AND STARTED TO BREAK APART. AMEND DW 24.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 1.22 N,1 36.033 E

 

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