This is the information page about the shipwreck Copeland (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 55.44 N,6 15.591 W (52.192216666667, -6.1479666666667)

 

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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. Atxeri mendi
2. Avance
3. Baron ailsa (possibly)
4. Brika (possibly)
5. Candidate
6. Caomhuala
7. Centurion (possibly)
8. Ceres
9. Charleston (possibly)
10. Copeland (possibly)
11. Empress
12. Grainville
13. Halronell
14. Hildefjord
15. Isolda
16. Langsdale (possibly)
17. Manchester market
18. Notre dame du sacre coeur
19. Pilar de larrinaga (possibly)
20. Providence
21. Rask (possibly)
22. Renegade
23. San conrado (possibly)
24. St672
25. Thoralf (possibly)
26. Tripoli
27. U 104
28. Uc 33
29. Vandalia (possibly)
30. Wheatflower (possibly)
31. Ydun

 

Name: COPELAND (POSSIBLY)

Length 75.3 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1184 ton
Load: wood: unprocessed and products

Cause: torpedoed & sunk by german submarine.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 79 meter, Height above seabed: 68 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20180609

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK IN 515700N, 061400W - 15MILES SSW FROM TUSKAR. H351/20 9.5.18 SUNK IN 515400N, 061100W. (NC QUEENSTOWN). INS OBSOLETE WK SYMBOL. 28.6.23 AMEND TO NDWPA. GOOD SONAR CONTACT, GOOD POSN 515500N, 061200W. (C IN CW APP & AUBD 319/29). 21.11.72 AMEND TO USCPA 30FMS. NE 1410. 5.12.77 AMEND TO USC 70MTRS. NC 2049. H4852/75 28.6.79 LOCATED 3.10.79 IN 515524.8N, 061531W [OGB]. DCS3 HT 5.1MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 75MTRS. NOT FULLY INVESTIGATED. LARGE PATCH OF WRECKAGE LYING MAINLY E/W WITH SUBSTANTIAL VERTICAL HEIGHT. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 51/78). AMEND TO USC 65MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H4467/81 26.10.81 EXAM'D 30.5.82 IN 515525N, 061533W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 70.8 IN GEN DEPTH 78MTRS. NO SCOUR. HYDROSEARCH- VERTICAL HT 9.3MTRS, LENGTH 94MTRS, BEAM 14MTRS. INTACT AND UPRIGHT, LYING 067/247 DEGS WITH BOWS E. HEAVY SILTING AT STERN. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 70B). AMEND TO WK 69MTRS. BR STD. SEP2018/000274610 13.11.18 EXAM'D 9.6.18 IN 5155.440N, 0615.591W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 72.55MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 79MTRS, LENGTH 104MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS, HEIGHT 6.3MTRS, ORIENTATION 068/248 DEGS. WRECK IS PARTIALLY INTACT BUT APPEARS TO BE COLLAPSING/BURIED TOWARD THE STERN. (RV KEARY, INFOMAR, H102). RETAIN NDW 69MTRS IN REVISED POSITION.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT & INTACT, BOWS E. SILTED AT STERN

Position: 51 55.44 N,6 15.591 W

 

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