This is the information page about the shipwreck City of swansea (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 28.883 N,3 11.43 W (50.481383, -3.190500)

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: CITY OF SWANSEA (PROBABLY)

Length 79.2 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1375 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1882 by palmers' co, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by palgrave, murphy & co. two boilers, compound expansion engine of 174 nhp, single shaft. passage newcastle-upon-tyne for boucau. torpedoed by ub-40. two men lost. (ww1sl & sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 40 meter, Height above seabed: 150 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2015

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 15M ENE FROM BERRY HEAD. (WW1SL). H6194/17 WK [OLD SYMBOL] IN 503100N, 031600W. - FNM 620/17. H8109/38 19.12.38 DELETED FROM CHARTS BY NM. H6025/39 22.8.39 NOW CHARTED AS NDW PA. (HMS GLEANER). BR STD. H2502/51 24.5.51 LEAST DEPTH OVER WRECK 17FMS, HEIGHT ABOVE SEABED 27FT. (HMS SEAGULL, 1950). H3971/52 17.4.53 WK IN 502855N, 031117W USING HSA. SWEPT CLEAR AT 16FMS, FOUL AT 17FMS. GENERAL DEPTH BY E/S 21-22FMS, LEAST DEPTH BY E/S 100FT. SEABED HARD. LENGTH 300FT. LIES IN A NE/SW DIRN AND THE SHALLOWEST PART IS IN THE CENTRE. VERY GOOD A/S RESPONSE. (HMS SCOTT, 1952). CHART AS WK 16FMS [29MTRS]. H5982/82 9.2.83 WK SHOWN IN 502857N, 031116W USING DECCA. (KINGFISHER CHART K(SW)2, 1982). NCA. H2923/83 19.11.84 EXAM'D 20.5.84 IN 502850N, 031121W [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 28.9MTRS, FOUL AT 30MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 29.0 IN GEN DEPTH 39MTRS. SCOUR 2MTRS DEEP. DCS3 HT 9MTRS, LENGTH 82MTRS. LYING 150/330DEGS ON PORT SIDE WITH DETACHED STERN SECTION. MAST CLEARLY SHOWN ON DCS3 TRACE. (GARDLINE SURVEY LTD, HI 202). AMEND TO SW 28.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN. SEP 2015/000019320 7.7.15 EXAM'D 9.3.15 LEAST M/B DEPTH 29.84MTRS IN 5028.883N, 0311.430W [WGD], GEN DEPTHS 40MTRS. LENGTH 81.8MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS, HEIGHT 9.9MTRS. ORIENTATION 150/330 DEGS. BROKEN, MOSTLY BURIED, ON PORT SIDE WITH BOW AND STERN BROKEN AWAY. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (MMT, HI 1453). AMEND TO NDW 29.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN, MOSTLY BURIED, ON PORT SIDE WITH BOW AND STERN BROKEN AWAY

Position: 50 28.883 N,3 11.43 W

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