This is the information page about the shipwreck Cantonad, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 54.135 N,3 5.026 W (50.11025, -2.8444333333333)

 

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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. Ave
2. Beatty rose (possibly)
3. Bostonian (probably)
4. Cantonad
5. Cheshire
6. Cistude
7. Clan stuart (probably)
8. Cornelia
9. Ece
10. Einar jarl
11. Gateway (probably)
12. Greenville
13. Kondor (probably)
14. La portaise (probably)
15. Moel tryvan
16. Murree
17. Orangemoor (possibly)
18. Osprey (bow section) (possibly)
19. Perintis
20. Rhona (probably)
21. Roi leopold (possibly)
22. Siren
23. Ster de zee (possibly)
24. Taeping
25. Tom roper (possibly)
26. U 1055 or u 1191 (probably)
27. U 1191
28. Ub 19 (probably)

 

Name: CANTONAD

Length 87.8 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 2200 ton
Load: salt

Cause: vessel, built 1967 by t. ruiz de velasco s.a., bilbao. owned at time of loss by altamar mundial nav. s.a. on passage from porto empedocle, sicily, for lalundborg, denmark. heavily damaged during heavy weather. abandoned by crew & later sank. of 16 crew, one rescued, five bodies recovered & 10 missing. (msd).

Year of registration: 1979

Water depth above wreck: 66 meter, Height above seabed: 160 cm

Known since: 1979, last detected: 20150616

Details measurements/cartography: H3923/74 16.1.79 RADAR CONTACT OF 'CANTONAD' LOST BY BOTH M BULK CARRIERS 'EUROSEA' & 'THEOMANA' IN 495400N, 030500W. (LLOYDS VOL.235). CHART AS USC PA 30MTRS.

- NM357/79. 28.1.80 SHOWN AS NDW ON FRENCH 878 [1979 EDN]. NCA. HH090/496/02 19.2.91 LARGE WK EXAM'D 8.10.90 IN 495408.3N, 030501.4W [WGD] USING HYPERFIX. LEAST E/S DEPTH 58.6 IN GEN DEPTH 66.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 8.3MTRS, LENGTH 100MTRS, BEAM 16MTRS. BADLY BROKEN UP & PARTIALLY BURIED IN SAND. LIES 150/330DEGS. APPARENTLY WELL POPULATED BY FISH. (NP 1008, HI 496). AMEND TO WK 58MTRS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 703/91. HH100/351/16 26.1.01 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. BADLY BROKEN & PARTIALLY BURIED. LIES NE/SW WITH BOWS NE. MAIN FEATURE IS THE BOW WHICH RISES SOME 6MTRS. LIES OVER 70-70DEGS TO STBD. FURTHER AFT WK BECOMES TWISTED & TOTALLY INVERTED. NEXT 50MTRS IS JUST HULL WITH SECTIONS OF THE SUPERSTRUCTURE ALONG THE SEABED ON THE SE SIDE TOGETHER WITH TWO HAMMER HEAD DERRICKS. SINGLE PROP & RUDDER IN PLACE. ON THE NW SIDE AT THE STERN IS AN UPTURNED LIFEBOAT OF SOME 4MTRS LENGTH. (L BISHOP). NCA. 14.10.15 EXAM'D 16.6.15 IN 4954.135N, 0305.026W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 58.7MTRS IN GEN DEPTHS 66MTRS. LENGTH 84MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS, HT 7.0MTRS, ORIENTATION 160/340 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. PARTIALLY INTACT, LYING ON SIDE, BADLY BROKEN UP. (MMT, HI 1480). AMEND TO NDW 58MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: PARTIALLY INTACT, LYING ON SIDE, BADLY BROKEN UP

Position: 49 54.135 N,3 5.026 W

 

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