This is the information page about the shipwreck Conch, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 8.387 N,2 35.792 W (50.39495, -2.4067166666667)

 

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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.

 

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7. Beatty rose (possibly)
8. Black hawk (aft section)
9. Bonita
10. Borgund i (possibly)
11. Britannia (possibly)
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13. Conch
14. Einar jarl
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23. Hms recoil (bow section)(probably)
24. Hms recoil (stern section)(probably)
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26. Hmsm affray
27. Hmsm l24
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29. K m b (possibly)
30. Klein famile
31. L h carl
32. Lst 531
33. Lucinda (possibly)
34. Mallard (possibly)
35. Marie therese
36. Memnon
37. Merchant royal
38. Miniota
39. Moel tryvan
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44. Pas (c.182)
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47. Romsdalen (probably)
48. Spiral (possibly)
49. Stancrest
50. Trito
51. U 1055 or u 1191 (probably)
52. U 322 (possibly)
53. Ub 19 (probably)
54. Valdes (probably)

 

Name: CONCH

Length 121.9 meter, width: 15.5 meter, draught: 9.1, tonnage 5620 ton
Load: chemicals

Cause: built in 1909 by swan hunter & wigham richardson of newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by the anglo-saxon petroleum co ltd. three boilers, triple expansion engine of 448 hp, single shaft. passage rangoon for the thames. cargo benzine. torpedoed by ub 23, 52 of 56 men lost. bridge crew probably killed at once as telegraphs remained unchanged. engineers remained below for 3 hours before managing to get a boat away. vessel sank 8.5 hours after being hit. (sibi).

Year of registration: 2001

Water depth above wreck: 60 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 2001, last detected: 2003

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK IN POSN 12 MILES S X W 0.5 W FROM ANVIL PT. (WW1SL). HH100/351/17 17.7.01 DIVED IN 5008.36N, 0238.72W [OGB]. GEN DEPTH 65MTRS BY DIVE COMPUTER. SEABED GRAVEL. LIES ON PORT SIDE, NEARLY INVERTED. THE STERN IS TO THE SOUTH WHERE THE PROP AND THE BROKEN-OFF RUDDER CAN BE SEEN. THERE IS A BIG HOLE IN THE HULL NEAR THE STERN WHERE THE BOILERS CAN BE SEEN. THE HULL IS PARTLY BURIED IN GRAVEL AND A BANK OF GRAVEL COVERS THE WK NEAR MIDSHIPS. HAS BEEN POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED BY THE BELL. (N R CHIPCHASE, LTR DTD 7.01). INS AS NDW. BR STD. HH090/961/01 16.12.03 EXAM'D 8.8.03 IN 5008.387N, 0235.792W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 53.1 IN GEN DEPTH 60MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 97MTRS, WIDTH 16MTRS. DCS3 HT 6.5MTRS. LIES 000/180 DEGS WITH BOWS N. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. DEBRIS EXTENDS 9MTRS TOWARDS 000 DEGS FROM THE N END. INTACT, ON PORT SIDE. (GARDLINE, HI 961). AMEND WK 53MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, ON PORT SIDE, BOWS N

Position: 50 8.387 N,2 35.792 W

 

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