This is the information page about the shipwreck Cherbury (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 25.138 N,10 28.943 W (54.266833333333, -10.1755)

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: CHERBURY (POSSIBLY)

Length 100.9 meter, width: 14.5 meter, draught: 6.8, tonnage 3220 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1911 by j blumer & co, sunderland. owned at time of loss by cherbury ss co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 297nhp, single shaft. machinery by j dickingson & sons ltd. passage barry for cromarty. captured by u 30 and sunk by scuttling charges. no lives lost. (sii).

Year of registration: 1915

Water depth above wreck: 141 meter, Height above seabed: 130 cm

Known since: 1915, last detected: 2007

Details measurements/cartography: 22.1.71 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 27M WNW FROM EAGLE ISLAND. (WW1SL). GIVES POSN 542754N, 104800W FOR FILING ONLY. 26.9.00 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 13M NNW FROM EAGLE ISLAND, CO MAYO. (LL WW1). GIVES POSN 542900N, 101400W FOR FILING ONLY. SEP 2007/000038418 21.5.07 WK LOCATED IN 5425.138N, 1028.943W [WGD] USING DGPS. GEN DEPTH 141MTRS. LENGTH 111MTRS, WIDTH 28MTRS, HT 3.2MTRS. (INSS SURVEY 1999-2005). LIES 130/310 DEGS. INTACT BUT FLATTENED. POSSIBLY THIS WK. INS AS WK 136MTRS.

- NM 3026/07.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, FLATTENED

Position: 54 25.138 N,10 28.943 W

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