Wreck: Copenhagen (possibly) (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Copenhagen (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 46.448 N,2 50.629 E (51.55235, 2.86085)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: COPENHAGEN (POSSIBLY)
Length 100.9 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 2570 ton
Load: personnel
Cause: Torpedoed and sunk by german submarine. six lives lost. (ww1sl). passage harwich for hook of holland. (ll ww1) built 1907 by j brown & co. with turbine engines of 12,000shp capable of 22knots, triple-screw. owned at time of loss by great eastern railway co. torpedoed & sunk by german submarine uc 16. 6 lives lost. (dods & diver magazine aug '10)
Year of registration: 1990
Water depth above wreck: 24 meter
Known since: 1990, last detected: 2022
Details measurements/cartography: [NO DATE] VESSEL SUNK 8M EAST HALF NORTH FROM N HINDER LTV. (WW1 SL). HH340/351/01 26.10.90 WK 29.5MTRS SHOWN IN 514630N, 025042E [EUR] ON NETHERLANDS 3371 [JUN '90 EDN].
- NM 3297/90. 24.5.05 SHOWN AS WK 31MTRS IN 5146.450N, 0250.620E [WGD] ON NETHERLANDS 1630 [INT 1416] [JUN '05 EDN, CO-PRODUCTION]. NC 1630. 27.3.09 WK 30MTRS IN 5146.4N, 0250.6E [WGD]. NAME GIVEN AS COPENHAGEN (POSSIBLY). (NETHERLANDS WRECK REGISTER 2009 NO. R06 2595) SEP 2010/000049717 31.3.10 NOW WK 26.5MTRS IN 5146.43N, 0250.64E [WGD]. (NETHERLANDS NM 12/178/10).
- NM 2103/10. 13.7.10 WK IS UPRIGHT, LITTLE SUPERSTRUCTURE REMAINS. DECKHOUSES FLATTENED. STERN INTACT WITH 3 PROPELLERS ON EXPOSED PROPSHAFT. (DIVER MAGAZINE AUG '10)
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 51 46.448 N,2 50.629 E
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